Keir Starmer is ringing members of the Cabinet in a bid to shore up his position in the wake of Andy Burnham’s by-election victory.
The Prime Minister is already understood to have spoken to at least two Cabinet ministers, including David Lammy, the Deputy Prime Minister, and Richard Hermer, the Attorney General, as his premiership faces a day of reckoning.
He has calls scheduled with other Cabinet ministers over the next two days.
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Starmer is expected to ask them whether they are loyal to him – amid claims he will sack anyone who does not support him.
