{"id":24084,"date":"2026-05-10T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/24084\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:58:23","slug":"rebel-labour-mp-threatens-leadership-bid-as-calls-grow-for-starmer-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/24084\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Labour MP threatens leadership bid as calls grow for Starmer to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Rebel Labour MP threatens leadership bid as calls grow for Starmer to resign\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z8JDs_wmy1Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRebel Labour MP threatens leadership bid as calls grow for Starmer to resign<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSir Keir Starmer is facing calls from some of his own MPs to resign in the wake of Labour&#8217;s disastrous local election results.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, has threatened to a launch leadership bid if senior colleagues do not agree on a successor soon, stating that &#8220;working people sent us a message on Thursday&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has also spoken out, saying it was &#8220;a mistake&#8221; to block Andy Burnham from running in the Gorton and Denton by-election and calling for him to be allowed to return. <\/p>\n<p>Sky&#8217;s Rob Powell visited Catherine West&#8217;s north London constituency and asked voters there what they make of the prime minister&#8217;s chances of survival &#8211; and their MP&#8217;s bid for power.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/politics-latest-local-elections-england-scotland-wales-2026-starmer-12593360?postid=11666168#liveblog-body <\/p>\n<p>#Labour #LocalElections #Politics #UK<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel Labour MP threatens leadership bid as calls grow for Starmer to resign Sir Keir Starmer is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20540,15336,14711,26046,362,26484,26487,2364,1204,26485,3840,226,461,724,26587,26483,26486,725,26588,2324,263,8246,1295,265,490,1574,25915,1994,31,6351,247,325,26409,462,1520,296,2378,279,341,1144,355,1423,4751],"class_list":{"0":"post-24084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sky-news","8":"tag-andy-burnham","9":"tag-angela-rayner","10":"tag-badenoch","11":"tag-ballot","12":"tag-britain","13":"tag-by-election","14":"tag-catherine-west","15":"tag-conservatives","16":"tag-cost-of-living","17":"tag-deputy-pm","18":"tag-downing-street","19":"tag-economy","20":"tag-england","21":"tag-farage","22":"tag-friern-barnet","23":"tag-gorton-and-denton","24":"tag-greater-manchester-mayor","25":"tag-green-party","26":"tag-hornsey","27":"tag-immigration","28":"tag-keir-starmer","29":"tag-labour-leadership","30":"tag-labour-party","31":"tag-local-elections","32":"tag-london","33":"tag-manchester","34":"tag-mayor","35":"tag-migration","36":"tag-news","37":"tag-parliament","38":"tag-politics","39":"tag-reform-uk","40":"tag-rob-powell","41":"tag-scotland","42":"tag-sky","43":"tag-sky-news","44":"tag-tories","45":"tag-uk","46":"tag-uk-news","47":"tag-vote","48":"tag-wales","49":"tag-wes-streeting","50":"tag-westminster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}