Scottish Labour leader Anas Sawar is holding his unscheduled press conference to call for Starmer to resign. It’s not expected that Welsh Labour leader Eluned Morgan will do the same today. Dominoes…
UPDATE: After Sarwar calls for Starmer to go, No10 responds:
“Keir Starmer is one of only four Labour leaders ever to have won a general election. He has a clear five-year mandate from the British people to deliver change, and that is what he will do.”
Speaking about Morgan McSweeney’s resignation, skills minister Jacqui Smith told Times Radio:
“It’s clearly not ideal but I do understand why Morgan, as he explained, decided to resign at this point. But the important thing as you say is how we both tackle what this Epstein and Mandelson scandal has identified and also how we make sure, as the prime minister is absolutely determined to, that we continue the change that the country needs and that’s what I’m focusing on this morning.”