Starmer Exit and the By-Election That Could End the Labour Party
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
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Starmer Exit and the By-Election That Could End the Labour Party
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about what is happening in the UK, an interesting daily mail exclusive, |
| 0:07.8 | where they claim that Stammer is going to resign in mid-June, but he wants to do it his way. |
| 0:15.4 | He wants to leave with dignity. |
| 0:16.7 | We have two candidates who have emerged as frontrunners, |
| 0:22.1 | Streeting and Andy Burnham. |
| 0:25.9 | And I believe Rainer is kind of waiting in the wings, |
| 0:29.2 | but the Labour Party does not look good. |
| 0:31.9 | It looks very, very bad for Labor. |
| 0:33.6 | What's happening? |
| 0:35.3 | Well, I would put it more strongly than that. |
| 0:38.0 | I think that the Labour Party is now, I mean, it's in an incredibly perilous condition. |
| 0:47.2 | And it's not impossible that within a few weeks, its position will become completely terminal. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, before I start on that, and it's interesting and it's important, |
| 0:59.0 | but let me just talk a little bit about Stama, |
| 1:02.0 | because of course, Stama has been clinging on. |
| 1:05.0 | There were the disastrous local election results, |
| 1:08.0 | which we discussed in a recent program. |
| 1:12.3 | Reform won a sweeping victory. |
| 1:16.3 | We've had more results come through. |
| 1:19.6 | We've got the full sense of the cataclysmic collapse of labour right across England, Wales, Scotland, even in London, they're falling back. |
| 1:33.5 | Reform were the big winners. The Greens came second. Labour did incredibly badly. It was obvious |
| 1:42.9 | once the full results started to come through that Stama |
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