Immediate threat to Starmer has passed but his position remains precarious

Labour leader appears to have weathered the storm but the coming weeks and months will bring more moments of peril

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“Is it over?” That was the question that Labour MPs have been asking themselves and each other. But the meaning has shifted over the last 24 hours.

After last Wednesday afternoon’s chaos in the Commons over the release of the Peter Mandelson documents, MPs widely believed it was the final throes of Keir Starmer’s leadership.

But what looked like the start of a coup – when the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, called for Starmer to resign – seemingly turned out to be a damp squib.