{"id":33806,"date":"2026-05-11T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33806\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T14:27:21","slug":"keir-starmer-critic-backs-off-immediate-leadership-challenge-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/33806\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer critic backs off immediate leadership challenge \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West on Saturday stunned Westminster by saying she would trigger a Labour leadership contest unless Starmer\u2019s Cabinet moved against him by Monday. But she backed away from that threat in a letter sent to Labour MPs shortly after Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/keir-starmer-survival-speech-leadership-pressure-after-election\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said he has no plans to resign<\/a> during a speech in London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives me a little bit of a breather, take stock and this way you\u2019re formally asking somebody that they think there should be a change, so it\u2019s a step before that. For new MPs, for example, it\u2019s far less threatening to say you want that,\u201d West said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her U-turn gives potential leadership challenger Andy Burnham, who does not currently have a seat in Westminster and is the mayor of Greater Manchester, time to return to parliament as an MP.<\/p>\n<p>Angela Rayner, another potential contender, also still has to resolve the tax issue that forced her resignation as deputy prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>In another boost to Burnham, Rayner told an audience of union reps Monday that the Greater Manchester mayor should not have been blocked from returning as an MP earlier this year. Only Wes Streeting appears close to being ready to run a leadership contest \u2014\u00a0but MPs on the left of the party would likely challenge any move from the health secretary.<\/p>\n<p>West said \u201cproxies\u201d for each of the three leadership camps had contacted her since she threatened a putsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West on Saturday stunned Westminster by saying she would trigger a Labour leadership contest unless Starmer\u2019s Cabinet moved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7786,5172,14298,1360,7694,94,8939,185,73,5,6,4108],"class_list":{"0":"post-33806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-andy-burnham","9":"tag-angela-rayner","10":"tag-catherine-west","11":"tag-elections","12":"tag-guide","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-mayors","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-tax","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wes-streeting"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116556414547095278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}