Pippa Crerar

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I've been speaking to ministers subsequently, including in the cabinet, who say this is beginning to look like an orchestrated campaign.

Should Wes Streeting decide to go for it, if Andy Burnham isn't in a position to run, that this off-left will coalesce around at least one other leading figure.

And whether that's Ed Miliband, whether that's Angela Rayner, I think it's quite going to be increasingly hard to find anybody, even in his top team, that thinks Keir Starmer will definitely last until the next election.

So it's worth just saying, Lucy, that, of course, all of this is against the backdrop of what happened yesterday at a very dramatic day at Westminster when dozens of Labour MPs publicly called for the Prime Minister to go to set out an orderly timetable for his departure, including some ministerial aides, but not ministers.

And the biggest significance of what's happened this morning or today already is that we're now in the ministerial ranks.

So three ministers, as you say, have gone.

One of them, Yata Fambula,

is of the soft left, an ally of Ed Miliband, and actually somebody we're told who had previously considered her position, wasn't necessarily very happy with the way things were going.

And it is the two subsequent resignations which are much more significant, really, in the context of everything that's happening here at Westminster.

One of them, of course, Jess Phillips, a very well-known minister, Home Office,

She was responsible for safeguarding and she sent a coruscating letter to the Prime Minister in which he said that he hadn't got a grip of the big challenges facing the country and he was being far too incremental in his delivery and that she felt that the party can continue.

Crucially, she is a close friend and ally of Wes Streeting.

The third resignation, a woman called Alex Davies-Jones, Liberal MP, who is also in the Home Office,

said that she also didn't have faith in Keir Starmer's premiership.

She is also an ally of Streeting.

And at this point, I've been speaking to ministers subsequently, including in the cabinet, who say this is beginning to look like an orchestrated campaign.

Yeah, that's right.

So Keir Starmer had a pre-planned cabinet meeting at 9am with his minister's

And he opened it by telling them that he's going to fight on as prime minister, saying that the threshold for a leadership challenge had not been met.