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Posted on 05/08/2026 8:43:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday that he will not resign after bruising elections that saw his governing Labour Party suffer big losses and the hard-right party Reform UK make major gains.
The local and regional elections are widely seen as unofficial referendum on Starmer, whose popularity has plummeted since he led Labour to power less than two years ago
Voters have grown impatient for economic growth and dramatic change after 14 years of Conservative government, and many Labour lawmakers have become despairing at the government’s failure to deliver.
Starmer said he took responsibility for the “very tough” results but would not quit.
“The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved,” he said. “I was elected to meet those challenges, and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.”
Reform UK, led by the veteran nationalist politician Nigel Farage, won hundreds of local council seats in working-class areas in England’s north such as Hartlepool that once were solid Labour turf, and also made gains from the Conservatives in areas like Havering on the eastern edge of London.
Farage said the results marked a “historic change in British politics.”
Reform took seats from both Labour and the Conservatives as results were tallied across England. Votes were also being counted in contests for semiautonomous parliaments in Scotland and Wales.
A Labour rout in the elections could trigger moves by restive party lawmakers to oust a leader who won a landslide victory in July 2024. Even if Starmer survives for now, many analysts doubt he will lead the party into the next national election, which must be held by 2029.
Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy cautioned the party not to topple the prime minister,
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Maybe they’ll BOOT him ,LOL
He’s gonna have to be dragged out in leg irons.
“oust a leader who won a landslide victory in July 2024.”
F’n AP. Labour got 35% of that vote.
Pray Starmer doesn’t quit. He’s just an incompetent boob.
Any possible replacement will be much, much worse.
That’s why I call them Ape Pee. Cuz that’s what they’re worth.
Just a flesh wound!
““The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved,” he said. “I was elected to meet those challenges, and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.””
Sounds like he’s going to double down on stoopid... not surprisingly since it’s their MO.
Of course he won’t. Leftists never quit or face consequences. Instead, he will get busy figuring out how to cancel and or delay any elections.
The Lust for Power is the Grandest of them all.
Gravy train......🚂
“...He’s gonna have to be dragged out in leg irons...”
Yep. Typical communist.....
He’d be wise to just quietly leave while he still can.
In another time, he’d be Mussolini’ed in the public square.
He’s going to get “The Spanish Archer”....El Bow!
sounds like a guy over here named powell.
Agreed. Or Ceaucescu’d.
Labor in 2024 won lots of seats, because Reform and Conservatives split the vote.
Otherwise, Labor just basically got its traditional 35%.
Now, Reform is clearly established as the majority party, so people, who do not want to loose the vote for small party, will vote Reform!
I happen to shook hand and have photo with Nigel!
Good guy.
He was not smiling that much on my photo!
The UK is gone.
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