Rolling list:
Pretty unusual for Cabinet ministers to storm up to the cameras immediately after the meeting. Regurgitating the same language Starmer himself used this morning…
Rachel Corp, CEO of ITN since September 2022, has suddenly resigned today:
“After a great deal of reflection, I have decided that the time is right for me to step down as CEO and pursue new opportunities.”
A few eyes on the BBC…
Today Reform posts its largest lead with YouGov to date, up three points on 5th May:
Labour is in fourth. Your Party is on 0%. Sample size: 2338 adults in Great Britain. Fieldwork: 10-11 May. The state of play today as Labour implodes…
The government is in free fall. Starmer is on the brink. Today is the kind of day to keep refreshing Guido, over and over…
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Starmer’s words at the top of today’s Cabinet meeting were, according to the readout:
“As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised.
The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and for families.
The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered.
The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet.”
He’s trying to stay. This is about to get interesting…
Cabinet is ongoing at the time of going to pixel. 81 MPs (and counting) have called for Starmer to go. To be a fly on the wall in Number 10…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”