Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, left, former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham meet with school children at a primary school in Ashton-under-Lyne, north-west England, Monday April 13, 2026. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP)
Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer pauses as he delivers a speech, at the Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre in Waterloo, London, Monday May 11, 2026. (James Manning/PA via AP)
Cameras are covered with rain covers as journalists wait for a showing of Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, May 11, 2026.(AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)
LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a battle for his job after dozens of lawmakers from his own party called on him to step down in the wake of a resounding defeat for his center-left Labour Party in local elections last week.
Starmer remains defiant, saying Tuesday he wants to get on with governing, but the decision could be taken out of his hands. On Tuesday. several junior ministers quit the government, and urged the prime minister to resign, stoking peculation that Starmer could suffer the fate of Boris Johnson in 2022 when dozens of ministers quit en masse and forced the Conservative Party leader to quit.
