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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to announce as soon as Monday that he will resign, according to new reports, as Labour supporters abandon the party.

But many on the left remain skeptical that his likely replacement, Andy Burnham, will truly bring the “change” he promises.

Britain’s Observer newspaper reported on Saturday that the prime minister appeared “resigned” to stepping down, well aware that “support isn’t there” for his continued leadership amid the party’s dismal unpopularity.

Though Starmer swept away nearly a decade and a half of Conservative rule in 2024, his honeymoon has been short-lived. His embrace of austerity in the face of a cost-of-living crisis and his government’s ferocious crackdowns on pro-Palestinian speech have left progressive supporters seeking alternatives like the ascendant Green Party.

Meanwhile, his hard-right pivot on immigration has done little to siphon votes from Brexiteer Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform UK party, which currently leads in national polls.

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The immediate trigger for Starmer’s reported resignation was Burnham’s victory in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election, which marked the former mayor of Greater Manchester’s return to Westminster. Burnham comfortably defeated a Reform UK candidate, and The Guardian reported that he was expected to have support from about 200 Labour MPs in a leadership challenge against Starmer.

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