Stubborn Starmer defies Labour plotters - The Latest
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:10.6 | I've been speaking to ministers subsequently, including in the Cabinet, who say this is |
| 0:14.3 | beginning to look like an orchestrated campaign. |
| 0:16.3 | Where's streeting? Do you want to be Prime Minister? |
| 0:19.0 | Should where's streeting decide to go for it? |
| 0:21.4 | If Andy Burnham isn't in a position to run, that this off-left will coalesce around at least one other leading figure. And whether that's Ed Miliband, whether that's Angela Rainer, I think it's quite getting increasingly hard to find anybody, even in his top team that thinks Kirstarmer will definitely last until the next election. Ministers resign after Kirstama tells his cabinet he's not stepping down as prime minister, |
| 0:40.9 | despite more than 80 MPs calling for him to go. |
| 0:44.4 | How much longer has he got? |
| 0:46.2 | From The Guardians Today in Focus, this is the latest with me, Lucy Hoth. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, joining me is Pippa Kriara, our political editor. |
| 0:53.7 | Pippa, thank you for joining us on a very, very busy and tense day. Normally, we would ask our political correspondence and editors to go about 15 minutes up some flights of stairs in Westminster, but it's too busy a day for that, so you're in the Guardian office. Let's start with the ministerial resignations that we've had, three of them today, |
| 1:12.1 | against Keir Stama. How significant and how damaging are they? |
| 1:16.2 | So it's worth just saying, Lucy, that of course, all of this is against the backdrop of what |
| 1:19.8 | happened yesterday at a very dramatic day at Westminster when dozens of Labour MPs publicly |
| 1:26.4 | called for the Prime Minister to go to set out an orderly |
| 1:28.9 | timetable for his departure, including some ministerial aids, but not ministers. And the biggest |
| 1:35.0 | significance of what's happened this morning or today already is that we're now in the ministerial |
| 1:41.2 | ranks. So three ministers, as you say, have gone. One of the Miata Fambula is of the soft left, an ally of Ed Miliband. And actually somebody were told |
| 1:48.1 | who had previously considered her position wasn't necessarily very happy with the way |
| 1:54.2 | things were going. And it is the two subsequent resignations, which are much more significant, |
| 2:00.2 | really in the context of everything |
| 2:01.3 | that's happening here at Westminster. One of them, of course, Jess Phillips, a very well-known |
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