Jessica Elgot
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first heard May 2026
last heard 14 May
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It is clear that he is not going to directly challenge the prime minister himself, that he believes that the only route to a change of prime minister is for Keir Starmer to resign.
I think those around Burnham believe that time is of the essence because they ultimately believe he is the candidate who has the most support amongst the party's MPs, has the most support amongst the party membership and, you know, has the most support in the country.
Those two things combined, they just don't come around very often.
Yes, West Streeting has been keeping all of Westminster in huge suspense over the past three or four days about what he would do.
After an extremely chaotic night last night where allies of him were on the terrace speaking to lots of MPs,
having a drink in parliament and trying to persuade lots of people to come on board, even if they weren't natural supporters of the health secretary.
They were trying to get them to sign the papers anyway, just to trigger a challenge.
In fact, the Labour rules say you can't do that because you can't transfer your votes to different candidates.
They have obviously come to the conclusion this morning that they don't have the requisite numbers to mount a challenge to the prime minister.
Yeah.
Actually, if you talk to people around Streeting, they say they probably did have the numbers.
But the problem was that so many of them were ministers or people on the ministerial payroll.
They thought it was unfair to ask that many people to resign from the government.
I mean, look, it depends what you believe or not.
Number 10 and allies of the prime minister clearly believe that he didn't.
Yeah, so I think it definitely implies that.
I think it also is clear that he is not going to directly challenge the prime minister himself, that he believes that the only route to a change of prime minister is for Keir Starmer to resign.
There then to be a sort of formal, longer, you know, more traditional contest that happens after
resignation.
And then you would expect the field actually to be relatively wide.
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