{"id":89043,"date":"2026-05-12T06:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89043"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:58:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:58:34","slug":"senior-cabinet-ministers-and-more-than-70-mps-call-for-keir-starmers-resignation-as-speech-fails-to-quell-rebellion-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/12\/senior-cabinet-ministers-and-more-than-70-mps-call-for-keir-starmers-resignation-as-speech-fails-to-quell-rebellion-as-it-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior cabinet ministers and more than 70 MPs call for Keir Starmer\u2019s resignation as speech fails to quell rebellion \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th?id=ONUT.FW9j3FIEgKjyT7EDsBT0lg&amp;pid=News&amp;w=316&amp;h=200&amp;c=14&amp;rs=2&amp;qlt=90&amp;dpr=1.7\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">More than 70 Labour MPs publicly called for Keir Starmer to stand down, after a speech he gave to shore up his leadership after bruising local election results fell flat. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/live\/2026\/may\/11\/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-speech-angela-rayner-wes-streeting-andy-burnham-catherine-west-may-elections-uk-politics-latest-news-updates\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>More than 70 Labour MPs publicly called for Keir Starmer to stand down, after a speech he gave to shore up his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Starmer-serious.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89044,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89043\/revisions\/89044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}