A very wide briefing from camp Streeting says that the Health Secretary has the numbers to mount a unilateral challenge, but that “things are shifting” and some Cabinet ministers are set to resign today and/or call for the PM to go. Starmer fans are accusing Wes’ people of trying to push the Cabinet into making the first move. It’s a game of chicken…
There is also discussion over whether Starmer will announce his departure today anyway after his support ebbed away yesterday despite attempts to meet with MPs et cetera. N010 is still insisting this is impossible and that Starmer will continue until challenged, at which point he would fight. They would say that, wouldn’t they…
Cabinet ministers are beginning to deny camp Streeting’s claim that they will push for Starmer to resign. At the end of the day a challenge delayed is a challenge denied…
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.”