ThatGuyRobert

EXCL: Keir Starmer told ministers tonight that Wes can't win because it would "destroy our party and country". He invited all ministers into his study in the Commons. Ministers of state in one batch, followed by parliamentary under secretarties. One tells me the response was overwhelmingly positive re backing Starmer. "He was there doing the hard yards. There was something in his eyes I haven't seen before. And I liked it."

Just a thought. Wes Streeting owes his political status to the support he’s received over years from Peter Mandelson & Morgan McSweeney at Labour Together. He wouldn’t make a move against Keir Starmer without Mandelson’s say so. So look on this as Mandelson’s & Morgan’s revenge.

The King must be starting to wonder whether it's worth learning this week's speech

I have nothing but respect for Sir Keir Starmer. He transformed our party and led us to an election victory. But sadly it is clear now that to deliver on our promise of change and to secure Britain’s future, we must look to a new leader.

With respect to Catherine West, leadership contests and public ultimatums are not what the country needs right now. The public expects government to govern, not endless internal theatrics. The priority should be getting on with the job the British people elected Labour to do.

And now a fifth Labour MP: Connor Naismith MP says: "In the wake of these catastrophic local elections results, with regret, it is clear to me that we need new leadership. Leadership which is capable of bringing together a broad coalition of voters to stop the Thatcherite politics of Reform UK."

It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.