{"id":48274,"date":"2026-06-22T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48274\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:45:16","slug":"why-did-keir-starmer-resign-as-uk-prime-minister-bbc-newscast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/48274\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Keir Starmer resign as UK Prime Minister? | BBC Newscast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why did Keir Starmer resign as UK Prime Minister? | BBC Newscast\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EVNYoLgKTYw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy did Keir Starmer resign as UK Prime Minister? | BBC Newscast<br \/>\n<br \/>\nKeir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister.   <\/p>\n<p>Speaking outside number 10 on Monday morning the prime minister said he accepted that his party does not believe he is best placed to lead the country at the next general election. In an emotional speech he also thanked his wife and said he wanted to be the &#8220;best dad I can to my beautiful children&#8221;.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has arrived in Westminster to be sworn in as the new MP for Makerfield. Burnham has confirmed he\u2019ll stand to replace Starmer, and is currently the only candidate after Wes Streeting announced he was now backing Burnham.   <\/p>\n<p>James, Chris and Joe discuss another momentous day in Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister<br \/>\n00:17 Why is Starmer going &#8211; and is Andy Burnham next?<br \/>\n00:39 What pushed Starmer to step down?<br \/>\n04:19 Starmer\u2019s emotional resignation speech<br \/>\n11:45 Is Britain facing a wider political problem?<br \/>\n15:02 The mistakes that weakened Starmer\u2019s position<br \/>\n17:03 What is the future of Labour?<br \/>\n19:29 Who is running the country now?<br \/>\n22:13 Andy Burnham\u2019s path to Number 10<br \/>\n29:20 What happens next?<br \/>\n31:33 Outro<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why did Keir Starmer resign as UK Prime Minister? | BBC Newscast Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[20540,176,234,236,24432,16771,263,31,28238,385,267,4751,235],"class_list":["post-48274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bbc-news","tag-andy-burnham","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-burnham","tag-gb-politics","tag-keir-starmer","tag-news","tag-resigned","tag-starmer","tag-uk-politics","tag-westminster","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48274","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=48274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}