The health minister has said that members of Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet “may well” tell him to resign on Tuesday (12 May). It comes as more than 70 MPs have now publicly urged the prime minister to resign or set out a timetable for his departure, whilst four have quit as ministerial aides following a poor performance in the local elections. Appearing on Newsnight on Monday (11 May), Stephen Kinnock said that Sir Keir may be asked to step down when cabinet members meet for their weekly meeting on Tuesday. ““It is clear for everybody to see that a lot of people are either coming out and calling for Keir to resign or whatever it might be, and it is possible that members of the Cabinet might do that.”

Several frontbenchers told the Guardian they agreed the prime minister’s time in office should not go beyond the end of the year

The embattled PM will seek to persuade his MPs not to ditch him as Labour leader in a speech on Monday.