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Kirstama has pledged to prove the doubters wrong as he tries to head off a leadership challenge after the disastrous local election results last week.

Fighting for his political life, the PM announced plans for stronger ties with the EU,

powers to nationalise British steel and a scheme to help

young people find work. But will they be enough? Many of his own party don't seem to think so,

with his former deputy, Angela Rainer, calling for Andy Burnham to come back to Parliament.

Backbench MP, Catherine West, even threatened to mount a leadership challenge against Stama,

but has now backed down and called on him to go by September.

I'm Anusha Kellyan, and you're listening to The Politics Show from The New Statesman.

First, our political editor-Alva Ray and editor-in-chief Tom McTague will join me to discuss

Keir Stama's perilous political future. And then we'll hear from our political correspondent,

Ethan Croft, about his exclusive interview with Catherine West.

Alva, before we start dissecting Kirstama's speech, which was supposed to be his make or break moment,

can you just bring us up to date with what's going on within the Labour Party right now?

We're recording at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

We are, it's honestly the weirdest day in Westminster.

It is, I mean, in a way, nothing is happening.

And yet this feels like one of the most decisive days that this Labour government is going to have.

I mean, where we are is Kirstar Starrmer deliver this speech that we'll talk about,

which doesn't seem to have done enough to satisfy a lot of MPs that he can rise to this moment

and lead them in, certainly not that he can lead them into the next election,

even though the speech was saying that he gets it. Most of the messages I'm getting are saying, I'm not sure

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