Starmer insists 'majority' of Labour MPs back his leadership

BBC News ^ | April 26, 2026 | Damian Grammaticas

[MinorityRepublican]

Sir Keir Stamer has insisted the "vast majority" of Labour MPs supported him and wanted him to continue doing his job as prime minister.

He was speaking to the Sunday Times at the end of a week in which speculation about a potential leadership challenge has risen.

Sir Keir told the paper "in politics, you get this sort of thing all of the time, there is always talk".

Shadow home secretary Chris Philp said the prime minister should resign over his decision to appoint Lord Mandelson as the UK's ambassador to the US, adding that Labour MPs should "develop a backbone and get rid of him" if he did not step down.

Philp told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that some ministers were "equivocating" over Sir Keir's future and that a couple of MPs were publicly calling on him to go.

He said it was in "the national interest" for MPs to remove the prime minister.

In his interview with the Sunday Times, Sir Keir said "what you never hear from are all the people who are supportive, loyal and just want to get on with the job. And that is the vast majority of people in the Parliamentary Labour Party".

"They're pleased to be in power," Sir Keir said of what he described as most Labour MPs.

"They've waited a long time to be in power. And they just want to get on with their job. They don't make a lot of noise about it. They don't talk to journalists about it. It's really important that is reflected in these debates."

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TOPICS: United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: asstupidasstarmer; keirstamer; labour; lordmandelson; petermandelson; returnthesausages; twotierkeir; unearnedtitle; unitedkingdom

[xp38]

He's lacking enough harumphs

[Fungi]

"You're not insisting anything."

George Burns Oh God, You Devil

[Skywise]

I AM CAPTAIN KIRK!!!! There’s nothing wrong, everything is fine! Everybody believes in me!

[butlerweave]

Well the Labour Party is a load of idiots

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, but only by about 20% of the people, and most of those are Muslims.

[drypowder]

The majority of the Labour Party must now be muslims

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Der Starmer

[rktman]

I don’t think your definition of leadership means what you think it does.....🫨

[rktman]

Herr Shtarmer!

[Leaning Right]

> I don’t think your definition of leadership means what you think it does..... <

Hey, Mr. Starmer:

[j.havenfarm]

I want him to fail, and spectacularly so. Still it’s incredible and we have to note how selfish he is. I think he probably does think that his twisted agenda is in the best interests of the country. That said, “Country First” seems a completely alien notion to him

[rktman]

Eggs act lee!

[mass55th]

Is he asking or begging?

[HYPOCRACY]

Heck of a job Starmy!

[SunkenCiv]

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