Hello and welcome to The Rundown, a podcast from Politics Home with me Alan Tolhurst.

After crushing defeats across the UK last week for Kirstama,

dozens of Labour MPs have called on him to announce he will not lead the party into the next election

and set out a timetable to go as Prime Minister.

But despite several ministerial resignations this week, he's remained resolute that no contest has been triggered, and he will remain in post and fight any challenger who gets the nominations to stand against him. So how do we get here? Less than two years ago, Starmour was swept into number 10 on a huge majority, pledging to end the years of chaos under the Conservatives and turn Britain's

fortunes around. He now stands as the most unpopular PM since polling began, and as Labor breaks

out into civil war, memories of his speech outside Downing Street, promising that politics

would tread more lightly on our lives or a distant memory. To discuss what was brought us here

and where Labour, and therefore the country,

goes next, and to be joined by Calder Valley MP, Josh Fenton Glynn, one of those calling for

an orderly transition to another leader, alongside Steve Aikurst, director of research firm Persuasion UK,

as well as my colleague, Sienna Rogers, deputy editor of the House magazine, and Ryan Wayne,

senior director

at the Tony Blair Institute.

So Sienna, starting with you, and it's going to be quite a difficult episode for us

in a number of ways. Events are moving quite quickly. But as we record this at just gone

11 on Thursday morning, where kind of are we, I suppose, with the Labour Leadership

contest or lack of contest, I suppose, as it is currently? Yeah, so where we are right on this second

is that after the local elections, which obviously the results were terrible for the Labour Party,

they weren't actually, they didn't reach kind of worst case scenario levels of terrible, but it was still

enough to provoke a very severe reaction because, of course, these things are emotional for

MPs whose kind of friends and family have just lost their seats. And when it happens in their

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