UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Faces Resignation Calls After Labour Suffers Heavy Election Losses
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting calls to resign after Labour suffered heavy losses in last week’s local elections, triggering a wave of unrest in his own party.
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Breitbart EntertainmentWhile many, including some from within his own party, are calling on Starmer to resign, the PM has argued that shifting to the right or left with a new prime minister would be the wrong course of action. Instead, he claimed that the only way forward is through, and doubling down on his neo-liberal agenda defined by economic stagnation, high taxes, green policies, and mass migration.
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Wheeler said Starmer’s standing with the British public was hurt by the appointment as ambassador to the U.S. of Peter Mandelson, a former Cabinet minister, who had a close personal relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. This persisted, even after Epstein's conviction in 2008.
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Labour lost over 1,100 seats in councils across England last week, while Reform won more than 1,450 council seats. The new party made huge gains in former Labour heartlands in the north of England such as Sunderland and Barnsley, where it took control of councils in areas long-dominated by Labour. Reform has also made gains at the expense of the Conservative Party in areas where the main opposition party has MPs.
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Breitbart EntertainmentAmid declining support among working-class voters, who have largely jumped ship to Farage’s Reform UK, and the loss of Islamic and young voters to the likes of the Green Party, or independent Muslim voters, Labour lost upwards of 1,400 seats across the country this week. In contrast, Reform picked up over 1,400 seats.
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01 Breitbart Entertainment A group of Conservative Party councillors have joined up with left-wing parties in a European-style “cabinet of chaos” grand coalition to keep Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party out of power at all costs in one English county.
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02 Newsweek “If there were to be a general election, it would look like Farage would win, but not enough for an outright majority,” said Wheeler, who said there has been a growing “apathy and disconnection from Starmer.”
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