ByJASON GROVES, POLITICAL EDITORandSAM LAWLEY, NEWS REPORTERandJAMES TAPSFIELD, UK POLITICAL EDITORandDAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
Published:15:46 EDT, 11 May 2026|Updated:17:15 EDT, 11 May 2026
Keir Starmer's premiership is in freefall as Cabinet ministers push him to quit.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is leading calls for the Prime Minister to go, sources say, with reports that several ministers visited No 10 on Monday night.
Dozens ofLabourMPs have now told Sir Keir to resign after a last-ditch fightback speech failed to quell a growing mutiny.
On Monday, Labour sources said a delegation of senior ministers had gone in to No 10 to tell him his time is up. Further face-to-face calls are expected at Tuesday morning's meeting of the Cabinet if he refuses to budge.
'It's happening,' said one source. 'The PM has had his say, people have heard him out, but it has not changed minds. The herd is moving.'
Sir Keir warned that a leadership contest on the eve of Wednesday's King's Speech would plunge both the government and Britain into chaos.
But now leading figures including health secretaryWes Streetingand Greater Manchester MayorAndy Burnhamare privately canvassing supporters.
Financial markets took fright at the prospect of a contest driving Labour even further Left, pushing up the cost of government borrowing.
Source: Drudge Report
