Chief secretary, Darren Jones, says PM is ‘listening to colleagues’ but will make own decisions on way forward
UK politics live – latest updates
One of Keir Starmer’s closest aides has declined to say whether he will lead Labour into the next election amid mounting calls for him to resign.
The prime minister was “listening to colleagues” who were asking him to set out a timetable for departure but would make his own decisions about the way forward, the prime minister’s chief secretary said on Tuesday.
Darren Jones, a close ally of Starmer, warned the prime minister’s rivals that it was a “gruelling” job. “Anybody who thinks that they can just walk into the job of prime minister and, like the second coming of the messiah, fix all of our problems probably hasn’t really thought carefully enough about how difficult it is,” he said.
