Keir Starmer's Time As PM Is Nearing Its End – He Just Doesn't Seem To Realise It Yet

An Andy Burnham victory next Thursday will confirm that it's all over.

Keir Starmer could hardly have been more unequivocal when asked yet again whether he would fight any Labour leadership contest.

“I don’t think it should happen, but if it does then I will fight,” the prime minister said on Friday.

“And let me just be clear with you. That’s not about personal vanity, it’s not about stubbornness. It’s out of a very deep sense of duty.”

Allies of the PM describe him as “frustrated” and “angry” that his future is even up for debate less than two years after leading his party to a landslide election victory.

But whether he likes it or not, it is.

Former health secretary Wes Streeting has already said he will challenge Starmer, while Andy Burnham will also join any contest should he, as expected, win next week’s Makerfield by-election.

James `Lyons, who was director of communications in No.10 until last year, summed up the slightly surreal situation British politics now finds itself in.

“The full weight of the Labour Party’s still very considerable campaign machine is behind Andy Burnham to deliver the result that could end up with the prime minister being ousted,” he told HuffPost UK’s Commons........

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