Dr Ann Jones

His decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, a friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as the UK ambassador to Washington.

But part of it is Starmer's failure to connect with people and to deliver real change that he promised after 14 years of austerity under the previous Conservative Party rule, you know, improvements on cost of living and such.

His own Labour Party lawmakers, his parliamentary party, began turning on him in recent weeks.

And here's what he said from behind a lectern at 10 Downing Street moments ago.

At some points, his voice cracking and breaking with tears and emotion.

Starmer said he will stay on as a caretaker prime minister and then nominations for his successor will open on the 9th of July.

So it will be a summer of politics here.

Yeah, so Labour MPs seem to be coalescing around Andy Burnham.

He's the popular outgoing mayor of Manchester, England.

He was an MP in the past, a member of parliament, then returned home to northern England to serve as mayor in his home region.

He brought economic development to post-industrial Manchester as mayor.

He won a special election to parliament last week.

He's actually being sworn into parliament this afternoon, after which he will be eligible to challenge Starmer.

He's seen more as sort of folksy, able to connect with voters in a way that Starmer did not, perhaps slightly to the left of Starmer, more likely to sort of robustly defend a welfare state.

But he will face the same headwinds, you know, rising global energy prices, strained public finances.

So in a way, this is

a change in personality at the top rather than policy.

You know, both Burnham and Starmer are from the same party with roughly the same politics.

Yeah, I spoke this morning with a former political secretary to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

His name is John McTernan.