Keir Starmer faces a crucial government meeting, divided over his future as 'premier'

LondonBritish Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces, in the coming hours of this Tuesday, a decisive meeting of his government, after at least two of his ministers have asked him to resign from office. According to different reports from the British press, at least the head of the Interior, Shabana Mahmood, and the head of Foreign Affairs, Yvette Cooper, have made him see the impossibility of sustaining his leadership. The Minister of Justice and number two of the executive, David Lammy, and the Minister of Defence, John Healey, would also have discussed his future. One way or another, the four have thus joined the revolt of the more than seventy second-tier parliamentarians who yesterday Monday asked him to step aside and establish a timetable for an orderly departure from Downing Street.

The new political spectacle that Westminster is experiencing takes place less than twenty-four hours after Starmer attempted to revive his leadership with a speech in central London, in which he assured that, in no way, would he abandon to plunge the country into chaos. But both his leadership and his authority seem, at this point, mortally wounded, following the electoral disaster of last week, in the local elections in England and the regional elections in Wales and Scotland. the electoral disaster of last week, in the local elections in England and the regional elections in Wales and Scotland.

Starmer's closest allies had defined the decisive intervention as a reset of his government's action. But far from what the premier and his trusted men expected, the head of government's words were received with coldness by a significant number of deputies who, throughout yesterday, unleashed a continuous drip of calls for resignation or an orderly departure.

Throughout this morning it will be possible to see if the revolt has triumphed or not. In any case, Starmer is already a burnt-out leader. Beyond the names circulating to take over, the big debate that the Labour Party must face is about policies. Policies that correct the enormous inequalities that continue to affect large sectors of the British population, and who believed in the change that Starmer promised two years ago, and which led him to win the elections in July 2024.

Otherwise, with Starmer or any other prime minister, Labour risks handing the keys to power to Nigel Farage and the far-right in 2029. "If we don't get things right, our country will go down a very dark path", the prime minister himself acknowledged in his failed speech.