Labour MP demands Starmer quit after Reform surge batters Hartlepool<\/p>\n
A Labour MP demanded Sir Keir Starmer quit after a \u201cterrible\u201d set of local election results.<\/p>\n
Hartlepool\u2019s Jonathan Brash, whose wife Pamela Hargreaves lost to Reform, said: \u201cI\u2019m looking for change at the top of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s clear to me that the Prime Minister should take this opportunity to set out a timetable for his own departure, and then allow for the widest possible leadership election that includes all the talents of our party.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be no blocking of any candidate from coming to the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party) if they feel they\u2019ve got something to offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you can imagine, I\u2019m really angry about tonight, because Labour politicians are delivering really big things, but we need a leadership of the party that is on the side of the British people.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019ve been too timid. We\u2019ve got a huge majority. We can do absolutely anything we want to transform this country and make people\u2019s lives better. We\u2019ve done some great things so far, but it\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to be bolder, and we have to go further. And quite frankly, we need new leadership in order to achieve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe results are terrible. It\u2019s devastating for Hartlepool. It\u2019s a terrible night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think Keir Starmer should survive these results.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour MP demands Starmer quit after Reform surge batters Hartlepool A Labour MP demanded Sir Keir Starmer quit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[528,1921,10751,12,16,15],"class_list":["post-945396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-labour-party","tag-live-blogs","tag-local-elections","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537332095548681","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945396","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=945396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}