Pippa Crerar

We also know that the Downing Street operation has been bolstered, that yesterday David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, Johnny Reynolds, the Chief Whip were in there most of the day.

I imagine they'll be spending some time in there today.

And Darren Jones, who of course is the Prime Minister's Chief Secretary, has been heavily involved in all of this as well.

So we've started seeing a bit of a Downing Street fight back, although really not on the scale that you might expect given the precariousness of the Prime Minister's position and not replicating the sort of fight back we saw after Anna Sarwar, Labour's Scottish leader, called for Keir Starmer to go in February.

Nevertheless, some ministers came out of that cabinet meeting, went straight to the cameras outside Downing Street and said that they thought that Keir Starmer should stay in post.

Some of them add, not necessarily the ones talking to the camera, but others add, for now, I think it's getting increasingly hard to find anybody, even in his top team, that thinks Keir Starmer will definitely last until the next election.

Yeah, well, I do think, as I said, it's important to note that he's been quite open in recent weeks, including with the prime minister, we understand, that should a contest arise that he would want to run, that he's ambitious, that he sees himself as a future prime minister.

The distinction he's always made, though, is that he's planning, not plotting.

And some of his very close friends insist that he has not got an ops plan ready to press the button on, you know, people ready to go into jobs.

Necessarily, the number is required to trigger an official contest, 81, although I believe they feel that they could get the numbers should they decide to go over the top.

But it's just increasingly feeling like it's too circumstantial that his closest allies, aides and ministers who are very much in his camp are standing down, calling for the prime minister to stand down.

As I said, we are expecting more resignations.

It'd be really interesting to see who they might ally themselves with, what camp they're in.

And of course, where's Streeting himself?

Does he say anything on the eve of the King's speech when the Prime Minister's made it so clear that he wants to stay put?

Do other cabinet ministers act?

I mean, there's some speculation that some of those who are unhappy about Keir Starmer's position right now think that a change needs to be made.

could themselves decide to either quit or to make public comments.

I think it's really important that people look as much at who hasn't said anything publicly as to who has.

Well, we don't know why Andy Burnham is in London and what meetings he's having, whether he's meeting with Labour MPs, whether he's meeting with those on the Green Benches already who are supporting him, who are his fairly open backers.