Former Transport Secretary and soft-left organiser Louise Haigh has called for Starmer to go unless he can turns things around. She told ITV Calendar today:
“Well, he is doing an incredible job at the moment on the international stage in the middle of global instability and a war and it is imperative that he is successful in that role because our constituents livelihoods are dependent upon it. But I think what is abundantly clear is that unless the government delivers significant and urgent change then the prime minister cannot lead us into another election.”
One of the few to go over the top (kind of)…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”