{"id":34108,"date":"2026-05-11T22:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/34108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T22:17:18","slug":"gillingham-and-rainham-mp-naushabah-khan-resigns-from-cabinet-office-role-after-labours-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/34108\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan resigns from Cabinet Office role after Labour\u2019s election results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Politics <\/a> <\/p>\n

A Kent MP has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to resign from a government role, saying the Prime Minister has \u201clost the confidence of the public\u201d.<\/p>\n

Gillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan (Lab) has announced she is stepping down from her position as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office following last week\u2019s local election results.<\/p>\n

\"Gillingham\"GillinghamGillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan (Lab) has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to resign her role as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Cabinet Office<\/p>\n

A PPS in the Cabinet Office is an assistant to a government minister, acting as a communication link between the minister and backbench MPs.<\/p>\n

Ms Khan said: \u201cThe message from last week’s elections was clear: the Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince being elected to serve the people of Gillingham and Rainham, I have always and will always put the interests of my constituents and our country first.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is with that commitment in mind that I have taken the difficult decision to resign my role as PPS to the Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur country faces unprecedented challenges. The people of Gillingham and Rainham and the country deserve leadership that can deliver on scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not enter politics to stand by while we fail. We need a clear change of direction now and no game playing. A Labour Government can and will rise to meet the moment if we act now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am calling for new leadership, so that we can rebuild trust and deliver the better future that the British people voted for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Khan has been the Labour MP for Gillingham and Rainham since the General Election of July 4, 2024.<\/p>\n

\"Gillingham\"GillinghamGillingham and Rainham MP Naushabah Khan (Lab) says\u00a0the Prime Minister has \u201clost the confidence of the public\u201d<\/p>\n

She beat the incumbent Conservative Rehman Chishti, who had held the seat for 14 years.<\/p>\n

She also represented the Gillingham South area on Medway Council from May 2015 until December 2024. She was appointed PPS in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More than 70 Labour MPs have called for Sir Keir Starmer to resign<\/a> after the party\u2019s disastrous local election results.<\/p>\n

Deal and Dover MP Mike Tapp backed the Prime Minister in a statement this evening.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThe country needs stability, not another revolving door of leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur immigration system, our national defence, and our economy all depend on serious, consistent government.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeir Starmer was elected to deliver change, and that work must continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time of global inconsistency, the responsible thing to do is unite behind the Prime Minister and focusing on delivering for Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll end by saying this: I spent my career studying and understanding the enemy, and I have continued doing so in politics. I can say with complete certainty that our opposition is loving this. Don\u2019t give them another second of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister sought to face down critics today with a promise to prove his doubters wrong, as a former minister withdrew threats to imminently launch a leadership challenge.<\/p>\n

But his speech failed to quell demands that he quit or set out a timetable for his departure from discontented backbenchers, who numbered 51 by this evening.<\/p>\n

Catherine West had previously said she would challenge Sir Keir for the party leadership as early as this afternoon, in an attempt to force the Cabinet to put forward a replacement as Prime Minister.<\/p>\n

But after a speech in which Sir Keir said he would not \u201cwalk away\u201d, the former Foreign Office minister said she would now canvass support within the party for the Prime Minister to set out a timetable for his resignation by September.<\/p>\n

\"In\"InIn a speech in central London today, Sir Keir said he took \u201cresponsibility\u201d for the losses but would fight on. Picture:\u00a0Leon Neal\/PA Wire<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Press Association, she added that she thought Sir Keir\u2019s speech had been \u201cheartfelt\u201d, but it did not \u201cchange the mathematics of how many seats we lost on Thursday\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speculation about the Prime Minister\u2019s future has intensified since Thursday\u2019s elections, in which Labour lost almost 1,500 English councillors, went backwards in Scotland and slumped to third in Wales.<\/p>\n

On top of the 51 MPs already calling for Sir Keir to go, others have suggested they could do so if he does not change course rapidly.<\/p>\n

In a speech in central London today, Sir Keir said he took \u201cresponsibility\u201d for the losses but would fight on.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to shy away from the fact that I\u2019ve got some doubters, including in my own party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to shy away from the fact that I have to prove them wrong, and I will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kent MP has made the \u201cdifficult decision\u201d to resign from a government role, saying the Prime Minister…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[309,355,14,5,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-34108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-kent","9":"tag-medway","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116558262645977960","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108","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=34108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}