UK PM Starmer faces resignation calls from foreign and interior ministers
UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have joined 77 Labour MPs already calling on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to step down. The move marks the widest internal challenge yet to the prime minister.
Calls within the governing Labour Party for the prime minister to resign are widening. According to TRT Haber, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood have joined 77 Labour MPs who had already publicly asked Keir Starmer to step down, marking the broadest cabinet-level dissent against the prime minister to date.
Starmer's government has been under pressure on a slowing economy, strained public spending, and disagreements over migration policy. Labour losses in this month's local elections sharpened internal frustration over the leadership's direction.
Critics within the party have suggested the prime minister could be pushed into a confidence vote. Downing Street rejected the prospect of a resignation. In a statement issued Monday, it said Starmer would continue to lead the government and remained committed to the reform agenda on fiscal policy and industrial strategy.
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