LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to fight on, describing his government as a “10-year project” despite mounting calls for him to quit after his party’s drubbing in local elections earlier this week.
Starmer’s Labour Party suffered the worst local election losses for a governing party in more than three decades, while the populist Reform UK party made significant gains – prompting a growing number of Labour lawmakers to call for his removal. A former minister in Starmer’s government, Catherine West, threatened to seek the backing of lawmakers to trigger a leadership contest unless his cabinet took steps to remove him by Monday.