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It is clear that he is not going to directly challenge the Prime Minister himself,

that he believes that the only route to a change of Prime Minister is for Keir Stama to resign.

In the last few minutes, the Health Secretary West Streeting has resigned, paving the way for a widely

anticipated challenge to the leadership of the Prime Minister, Sarkir Stama.

I think those around Burnham believe at times of the essence, because they ultimately believe he's the candidate who has the most support amongst the party's MPs, has the most support amongst party membership, and, you know, has the most support in the country. Those two things combined, they just don't come around very often. It's been a question of will he, won't he? But Wes Streeting has finally resigned as health secretary and said it's clear

Kirstama will not lead the party into the next election but why has he stopped short of an immediate

leadership challenge and has he left the door open for andy burnham from the guardians today in focus

this is the latest with me luc Hoff well joining me from Parliament is

Jessica Elgo at the Guardian's deputy political editor it's been a huge day in

Westminster after days of speculation about what we're streeting the former

health secretary was planning to do whether he would resign and whether he would

launch a leadership challenge he has resigned in a two-page very former health secretary was planning to do whether he would resign and whether he would launch

a leadership challenge. He has resigned in a two-page, very eviscerating letter to the Prime

Minister Kirstama. What were the contents of that letter? Yes, Westreating has been keeping

all of Westminster in huge suspense over the past three or four days about what he would do.

After an extremely chaotic night last night where allies of him were on the terrace, speaking to lots of MPs,

you know, having a drink in Parliament, trying to persuade lots of people to come on board.

Even if they weren't natural supporters of the Health Secretary, they were trying to get them to sign the papers anyway, just to trigger

a challenge. In fact, the Labour rules say you can't do that because you can't transfer your

votes to different candidates. They have obviously come to the conclusion this morning

that they don't have the requisite numbers to matter challenge to the Prime Minister.

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