{"id":659,"date":"2026-05-17T04:46:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2026-05-17T04:46:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:46:40","slug":"starmer-considering-resigning-as-uk-prime-minister-daily-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Starmer considering resigning as UK prime minister \u2013 Daily Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Labour leader wants to step down \u201cin a dignified way,\u201d journalist Dan Hodges wrote<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1591\" data-end=\"1759\">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is considering resigning amid a deepening political crisis inside the ruling Labour Party, according to Daily Mail journalist Dan Hodges.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1761\" data-end=\"2055\">Starmer became prime minister after leading Labour to a landslide victory in the 2024 general election. Less than two years later, however, his government is facing falling approval ratings, internal divisions, and growing pressure following Labour\u2019s poor performance in recent local elections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2057\" data-end=\"2252\">In a column published on Saturday, Hodges cited an unnamed cabinet minister as saying that Starmer <em>\u201cunderstands the political reality\u201d<\/em> and is considering arranging his departure on his own terms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2254\" data-end=\"2441\"><em>\u201cHe realizes the current chaos is unsustainable. He simply wants to be able to do it in a dignified way and in a manner of his own choosing. He will set out a timetable,\u201d<\/em> the source said.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mf.b37mrtl.ru\/files\/2026.05\/thumbnail\/6a062e0d2030277aed16b635.jpg\" alt=\"RT\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/640007-keir-starmer-pathetic-demise\/\">The pathetic demise of Keir Starmer<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-start=\"2443\" data-end=\"2746\">The newspaper said it remained unclear when such an announcement could come, with some of Starmer\u2019s allies urging him to wait until after the upcoming Makerfield by-election, where former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is expected to seek a return to Parliament ahead of a possible Labour leadership bid.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2748\" data-end=\"3077\">Pressure on Starmer intensified after four junior ministers resigned on Monday. According to the BBC, more than 80 Labour MPs have privately or publicly urged the prime minister to step down, although more than 100 backbenchers and junior ministers later signed a statement arguing that it was <em>\u201cno time for a leadership contest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3079\" data-end=\"3174\">Starmer has remained defiant in public and has indicated that he has no intention of resigning.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3176\" data-end=\"3311\"><em>\u201cThe country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a cabinet,\u201d<\/em> he said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3313\" data-end=\"3588\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The UK has experienced repeated political upheaval since the 2016 Brexit referendum, with four\u00a0Tory prime ministers serving over the following eight years before Starmer took office. Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss all resigned after internal party revolts.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1436\"><strong data-start=\"1342\" data-end=\"1349\"><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labour leader wants to step down \u201cin a dignified way,\u201d journalist Dan Hodges wrote&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}