Labour MP Catherine West on Sky News:
“What I want the Cabinet to do is to close themselves into a room today and come up with somebody who they can all get behind, which would mean we wouldn’t have to have a leadership election.
“And if that can happen, then we can have a very quiet transition without upsetting anybody, without having to go to all of the members.”
“Once I’ve listened carefully to what [Starmer] says, I will be demanding a timetable for an orderly transition…”
She added on BBC News “we have a problem, we have to move quickly”. When the herd moves…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”