UK Labour MPs are privately urging Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting to launch a leadership challenge against Sir Keir Starmer over the Lord Mandelson scandal, according to the Telegraph on X
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- One minister said the situation had become “existential” for Sir Keir, claiming that “basically everyone is urging a leadership challenge” in private.
- The conversations about the Prime Minister’s future are understood to have happened amongst MPs in person on Thursday and on Labour WhatsApp groups.
- The minister told The Telegraph that it is a widespread view amongst MPs and ministers that a leadership challenge should be started, adding that the plotters were now “too many to name”.
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