Wes Streeting and Keir Starmer.Wes Streeting is prepared to launch a Labour leadership challenge next week to end the “uncertainty and paralysis” over Keir Starmer’s future.
The former health secretary said the prime minister should be given the weekend to decide whether or not he wants to stand down in the wake of Thursday’s Makerfield by-election.
Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham appears to be on course to beat Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon to become the new MP for the seat.
Burnham has already said he will join any Labour leadership contest.
Starmer himself reiterated on Monday that he would also stand in an attempt to cling onto his job.
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