{"id":673236,"date":"2026-01-04T12:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673236\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T12:10:10","slug":"keir-starmer-says-he-regrets-tweet-welcoming-british-egyptian-activist-to-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/673236\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer says he regrets tweet welcoming British-Egyptian activist to UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;I will be judged at next election&#8217; &#8211; Starmerpublished at 09:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:50 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Watch: Chopping and changing of leadership &#8216;not in our national interest&#8217;, says Starmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Next, the interview moves on to questions over Starmer&#8217;s future in Number 10, something that has been a hot topic in Westminster as his poll ratings have tumbled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Many are looking towards May&#8217;s elections in Scotland, Wales and across England as a potentially key point if Labour suffer big losses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if there are any circumstances in which he would walk away should there be a leadership challenge after that, he says: &#8220;Under the last government, we saw constant chopping and changing of leadership, of teams, it caused utter chaos, utter chaos, and it\u2019s amongst the reasons that the Tories were booted out so effectively at the last election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says he is &#8220;not going to take us back to that kind of chaos&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked again if he would walk away, the PM suggests he will lead the party into the next general election, and says he &#8220;will be judged at the next general election on whether we have brought about the change that people voted for&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That&#8217;s the end of Starmer&#8217;s interview &#8211; we&#8217;ll bring you reaction from the guests shortly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;I will be judged at next election&#8217; &#8211; Starmerpublished at 09:50 GMT 09:50 GMT Media caption, Watch: Chopping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-673236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115836762463453843","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673236","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=673236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}