Pressure grows on UK’s Starmer to quit as PM

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday vowed to prove his doubters wrong and stem mounting calls for him to step down after disastrous local and regional elections for his ruling Labour party.

But more than 60 of Labour’s 403 MPs asked him to step down, unconvinced by his pledge to make the party bolder and better to assuage disgruntled voters impatient for change.

They included four government aides who resigned their positions.

Joe Morris, who was a parliamentary private secretary to Health Secretary Wes Streeting – widely rumoured to be considering a leadership challenge – wrote on X that it was “now clear that the prime minister no longer has the trust or confidence of the public to lead this change”.

Another, Tom Rutland, who was an aide to Environment Secretary Emma Reynolds, said Starmer had “lost authority” among Labour MPs and “will not be able to regain it.”

Melanie Ward, who was an assistant to Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, called for…