{"id":233828,"date":"2025-07-03T04:54:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233828\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T04:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T04:54:11","slug":"sir-keir-starmer-could-be-ousted-as-pm-within-months-two-senior-labour-mps-tell-sky-news-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/233828\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer could be ousted as PM within months, two senior Labour MPs tell Sky News | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two senior Labour MPs have suggested the prime minister may have to go within months if the government continues to perform poorly.<\/p>\n

Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates<\/strong><\/a> said his sources – a member of the government and a prominent politician – have “put Sir Keir Starmer on notice”.<\/p>\n

Both warned that, if Labour performs badly in next May’s elections across Wales, Scotland and London, it could mark the end of his time in Downing Street.<\/p>\n

Coates added: “The level of unhappiness and despair in parts of the Labour Party is so striking that right now, on the first anniversary, I am hearing from ministers in government that Starmer might have to go in months.”<\/p>\n

Reform UK is surging in the polls in Wales, while Labour faces a threat from left-wing parties such as the Greens in London.<\/p>\n

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\"coates<\/p>\n

1:16<\/p>\n

Why was the chancellor crying at PMQs? <\/p>\n

It comes as the prime minister made it clear that Rachel Reeves has his “complete support” as chancellor and remains integral to his project, Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby<\/strong><\/a> understands.<\/p>\n

She looked visibly upset during Prime Minister’s Questions, with a spokesperson claiming she had been affected by a “personal matter”.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, Sir Keir’s controversial welfare bill was passed despite a sizeable rebellion from Labour MPs, with major U-turns meaning a new \u00a35bn black hole has appeared in the country’s finances.<\/p>\n

One senior figure told Rigby that the pair were as “as close politically” as any chancellor and prime minister have ever been.<\/p>\n

“She is going absolutely nowhere,” they added.<\/p>\n

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\"Beth<\/p>\n

2:58<\/p>\n

Welfare vote ‘a blow to the prime minister’<\/p>\n

Ms Reeves’s tears sent markets spiralling, with the value of the pound and long-term government bonds falling sharply.<\/p>\n

Later in the day Sir Keir, said Ms Reeves will be chancellor for a “very long time to come”.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said it was “absolutely wrong” to suggest her tearful appearance in the Commons related to the welfare U-turn.<\/p>\n

“It’s got nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with what’s happened this week. It was a personal matter for her,” he said while speaking to the BBC’s podcast Political Thinking with Nick Robinson.<\/p>\n

“I’m not going to intrude on her privacy by talking to you about that. It is a personal matter.”<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:<\/strong>
Just 25% of public think Starmer will win next election<\/strong><\/a>
Analysis: Emotional Reeves a reminder of tough decisions ahead<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Asked if she will remain in post, he said: “She will be chancellor by the time this is broadcast, she will be chancellor for a very long time to come, because this project that we’ve been working on to change the Labour party, to win the election, change the country, that is a project which the chancellor and I’ve been working on together.”<\/p>\n

He said Ms Reeves has done a “fantastic job” and added: “She and I work together, we think together. In the past, there have been examples – I won’t give any specific – of chancellors and prime ministers who weren’t in lockstep. We’re in lockstep.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two senior Labour MPs have suggested the prime minister may have to go within months if the government…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-233828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114787520844927242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}