Alex Ritson

A standoff between him and a substantial chunk of the Labour Party that thinks it's just not working with Keir Starmer as our leader.

Something needs to change.

So it feels to me as though this is utterly untenable, that you just can't quite go on like this.

But how it resolves is not clear, Rebecca.

Right.

So we've had some fairly high profile resignations so far from ministerial positions and junior positions as well.

But what would need to happen to actually trigger the mechanism of a leadership election?

Well, technically, what you would need is 81 Labour MPs to say we're having a leadership challenge and this is the person.

So that's technically what you need.

But obviously...

What you're seeing before that is a draining away of the prime minister's authority.

You mentioned ministers resigning.

I think it's now up to three.

So if you add that overall to something like 20% of parliamentary Labour members, Labour MPs saying the prime minister needs to think about his position, you see what a tough place he's in.

Our UK political correspondent, Rob Watson.

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