So far in support:
- David Lammy
- Steve Reed
- Darren Jones
- Rachel Reeves
- Richard Hermer
- John Healey
- Jo Stevens
- Heidi Alexander
- Hilary Benn
- Bridget Phillipson
- Yvette Cooper
- Liz Kendall
- Nick Thomas-Symonds
- Pat McFadden
- Jonathan Reynolds
- Wes Streeting (“Keir Starmer doesn’t need to resign… It has not been the best week for the government… give Keir a chance.“)
- Douglas Alexander
- Ed Miliband
- Lisa Nandy
- Emma Reynolds
- Shabana Mahmood
UPDATE: All covered now over space of almost one hour.
Rolling list here:
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.”
Rayner has always been strident in her support for a general election post-change of PM. As Guido catalogued on Friday…
She isn’t the only leadership contender to have made such deep principles clear to the public in the past. Stand up, Wes…
Here’s Streeting in 2022 calling for a general election because changing Tory PMs had lost the mandate of the people:
And twice in 2023 spelling out that Sunak had no mandate from the public:
Needless to say both Streeting and Rayner will be massively hypocritical if they enter No10 and refuse to call an election. Perish the thought…
Amid an increasingly bitter briefing war between teams Rayner and Streeting the Times reports that some Labour MPs are getting ready to lend their staff to a Wes leadership campaign when it comes, suggesting annual leave is held back in order to do so. Candidates to be increasingly resemble coiled vipers as Starmer’s premiership falls apart…
Irrelevant Lords minister Jacqui Smith was sent out for the morning round to bat for Starmer. No one else has said a peep today…
So far today no Cabinet minister has gone on record anywhere, let alone in front of a TV camera, to support the PM. Tells you something…
UPDATE: Lammy comes out for Starmer:
Keir Starmer won a massive mandate 18 months ago, for five years to deliver on Labour’s manifesto that we all stood on.
We should let nothing distract us from our mission to change Britain and we support the Prime Minister in doing that.
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) February 9, 2026
The Daily Record reports just now that in Anas Sarwar’s unscheduled 2:30 p.m. press conference the leader of Scottish Labour will call for Starmer to quit. Curtains inching shut…
The Number 10 spokesman has confirmed Starmer’s ‘nothing-to-see-here’ speech to Downing Street staff actually preceded the announcement of Tim Allan’s resignation by around an hour. Hence why there was no reference to Allan in the address…
Number 10 resisted the claim that Allan threw in the towel immediately upon hearing Starmer’s rousing speech, which if true would mean Starmer knew his Director of Communications was about to resign while delivering a speech designed to convince staff his leadership wasn’t imploding. And when asked if the PM planned to resign today, the spokesman said “no”…
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.”
