UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer expected to resign as soon as next week
The reports come amid a surge in popularity for a recently elected MP who threatened the prime ministership.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to resign as soon as Monday.
British newspaper The Observer has reported that Sir Keir would quit after concluding that his position was no longer tenable.
The decision comes as Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election earlier this week.
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Sir Keir is expected to issue a statement on his future in the coming days and set out a timetable for his departure from 10 Dowling Street.
A Labour peer told The Observer that the Prime Minister would “arrange a deliberate slow march in good order, as a matter of duty and dignity”.
“I think he sees the realities. Stopping ‘chaos’ (as he rightly put it) is now not possible by staying, so that only leaves one option. I think he has come to see it as the dutiful option to serve the country and the party,” they said.
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