{"id":491,"date":"2026-05-11T01:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:54:55","slug":"starmer-says-his-govt-is-a-10-year-project-despite-calls-to-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"Starmer says his govt is a 10-year project despite calls to quit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to fight on, describing his government as a \u201c10-year project\u201d despite mounting calls for him to quit after his party\u2019s drubbing in local elections earlier this week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starmer\u2019s 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 &#8211; prompting a growing number of Labour lawmakers to call for his removal. A former minister in Starmer\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to fight on, describing his government as a \u201c10-year project\u201d despite mounting calls for him to quit after his party\u2019s drubbing in local elections earlier this week. Starmer\u2019s Labour Party suffered the worst local election losses for a governing party in more than three decades, while the populist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}