Six members of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet are expected to tell him to quit, the Telegraph newspaper reports ahead of a cabinet meeting.
The Telegraph, citing cabinet sources, says the six are interior minister Shabana Mahmood, defense minister John Healey, energy minister Ed Miliband, culture minister Lisa Nandy, foreign minister Yvette Cooper, and health minister Wes Streeting.
Starmer is facing a battle for his job after his Labour Party suffered a calamitous set of results in local elections last week that if repeated at a general election would see it comprehensively ejected from power.
Despite winning a landslide election victory in July 2024, Labour’s popularity has sunk and Starmer is getting much of the blame.
The reasons why are varied, including a series of policy missteps, a perceived lack of vision, a struggling British economy and questions over his judgment — especially his appointment of Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to Washington despite the envoy’s ties to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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