Keir Starmer is facing pressure to step down from Number 10 from within his party. Despite the calls for his removal his Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced her public support for him
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced her public support for Sir Keir Starmer following calls for him to quit.
The Prime Minister is under heavy pressure over his appointment of Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the US despite knowing about his friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. But in a statement on X Ms Reeves has voiced her support for the PM. She wrote: “With Keir as our Prime Minister we are turning the country around.”
Deputy PM David Lammy also called for MPs to “support the Prime Minister” despite Labour’s Scottish leader Anas Sarwar urging Starmer to step down.
In a message on X, Mr Lammy said: “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.”
A Downing Street spokesperson said: “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.”
Starmer is facing internal calls to step down from within his party after Mr Sarwar said the situation in Downing Street is “not good enough” and that the “leadership has to change.” He said: “It is so obvious that we desperately need change in Scotland and in three months time the opportunity to get rid of a failing SNP government is one that is too important to be missed.
“We cannot allow the failures at the heart of Downing Street to mean the failures continue here in Scotland, because the election in May is not without consequence for the lives of Scots.
“The situation in Downing Street is not good enough. There have been too many mistakes. They promised they were going to be different, but too much has happened.
“Have there been good things? Of course there have many of them, but no one knows them and no one can hear them because they’re being drowned out. That is why it cannot continue.”
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