On 6/21/2026 at 5:43 PM, webfact said:

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to outline a timetable for his departure from Downing Street this week following Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election, according to senior Labour figures.

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People close to Starmer said he has increasingly concluded that his position is no longer sustainable after discussions with cabinet colleagues, advisers, trade union leaders and party donors.

Pressure Mounts After Makerfield Result

The prime minister spent the weekend at Chequers with his wife, Victoria, and is expected to make a final decision after further discussions. Senior figures within Labour believe he could issue a statement as early as Monday.

One ally said Starmer did not intend to leave office abruptly and was instead focused on ensuring an orderly transition. The source said he now viewed stepping aside as the best way to serve both the country and the party.

Burnham's Return Changes the Landscape

Burnham’s decisive win over Reform UK in the Greater Manchester constituency has strengthened his standing within Labour and intensified pressure on Starmer.

Burnham is due to be sworn in as an MP on Monday and is expected to meet the prime minister later in the week.

Supporters of the former Greater Manchester mayor claim he now has the backing of more than 201 Labour MPs if a leadership contest is triggered. According to allies, that level of support demonstrates that a majority of Labour parliamentarians favour a change in leadership.

One senior Labour figure said Burnham’s victory had persuaded many MPs that he could be the strongest candidate to prevent Reform UK from making further electoral gains.

Former cabinet minister Charlie Falconer told the BBC that Starmer had lost authority because many within the party now expect Burnham to challenge for the leadership and believe he would win.

Cabinet Ministers Seek Clarity

Starmer is facing calls to clarify his intentions before a cabinet meeting scheduled for Tuesday.

Several senior ministers, including Ed Miliband, Shabana Mahmood, Yvette Cooper and Heidi Alexander, are reported to have urged him to establish a clear timetable for stepping down.

Party officials have also conveyed strong support among Labour MPs for what they describe as an orderly transition.

According to Starmer’s supporters, the most likely outcome would see him remain in office until September, allowing a successor to be formally endorsed at Labour’s annual conference.

Those who have spoken to the prime minister in recent days describe him as reflective rather than confrontational. Allies say he is assessing the implications of both the Makerfield result and a potential leadership contest.

Leadership Contest Taking Shape

While Burnham is widely viewed as the frontrunner, other figures are still considering leadership bids.

Allies of Wes Streeting insist he intends to run if a contest takes place. Streeting has reportedly secured office space for campaign staff and recently received financial backing from prominent Labour donor Fran Perrin.

However, some Labour figures believe Streeting could eventually support Burnham in exchange for a senior cabinet role in a future administration.

Despite mounting speculation, Downing Street dismissed reports of an imminent resignation as conjecture. On Friday, Starmer said he would take part in any Labour leadership election and maintained that he still had work to complete in government.

Meanwhile, Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said Labour would benefit from a clear and orderly leadership transition, while stressing the need for a wider debate on policy priorities.

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King Donald, was right.

Bye Bye never here Keir shut the door behind you, infact slam it shut don't want you sneaking back in. Starmers gone thank god.

A sad but dignified speech. He'll always be remembered as the man that managed to get Labour elected after the 2019 bloodbath.

Starmer Resigns as PM, Burnham Tipped to Succeed

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1397267-starmer-resigns-as-pm-burnham-tipped-to-succeed/

2 hours ago, josephbloggs said:

I lament the fact that UK politics is becoming a circus. People think having a revolving door at number 10 is somehow going to help the country. We never used to be like this.

Starmer, uninspiring as a person, but a good man with good intentions. He has been tackling the things the Tories ignored because they are unpopular.......but they need doing. I always assumed they would do this in the first 2-3 years of their tenure when they can use their majority to do the dirty stuff to correct the course of the country. Then the second half of their rule can be doing more popular stuff.

Starmer's biggest failing was his PR. They never made enough noise about the good things they've done. And unfortunately politics these days is all just noise. That's why foghorns like Farage have followers.

John Major speaks a lot of sense on this and he is spot on. Who'd have thought we'd ever look back on John Major and wish there were people of that caliber in politics now. It's now just a circus.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgepy0xw1nzo

Way back when before the last election when Starmer was Leader of the Opposition the 'Labour' patter was: ''Oh, he's being quiet about his plans so the right can't attack him. He's got to get the Ming vase across the finishing line before he opens up.'' (Which is ridiculous in and of itself in political terms.)

And I warned way back when: you elect a Ming vase LotOP, you get a Ming vase PM.

And that's exactly what the country got.

He may have been a decent AG, I don't know and don't care. But he was a failure after he lied his way to the 'Labour' Party leadership.

Burnham? Who knows? Is he a real Gorbachevian figure? If he is he'll give priority to electoral and political reform and try to bring the country politically and mentally out of the 19th century into the 21st.

Nothing, absolutely nothing will even stop getting worse until that happens. It's the precondition for political and economic recovery. Otherwise, let the decline continue 'apace'. (I hate that bloody word.)

All the world's a stage. And all the UK's politicians are merely symptoms.

2 minutes ago, BusyB said:

Way back when before the last election when Starmer was Leader of the Opposition the 'Labour' patter was: ''Oh, he's being quiet about his plans so the right can't attack him. He's got to get the Ming vase across the finishing line before he opens up.'' (Which is ridiculous in and of itself in political terms.)

And I warned way back when: you elect a Ming vase LotOP, you get a Ming vase PM.

And that's exactly what the country got.

He may have been a decent AG, I don't know and don't care. But he was a failure after he lied his way to the 'Labour' Party leadership.

Burnham? Who knows? Is he a real Gorbachevian figure? If he is he'll give priority to electoral and political reform and try to bring the country politically and mentally out of the 19th century into the 21st.

Nothing, absolutely nothing will even stop getting worse until that happens. It's the precondition for political and economic recovery. Otherwise, let the decline continue 'apace'. (I hate that bloody word.)

Electoral reform is key and I'm hopefully that Burnham might have the guts (and the majority) to do it.

The luckiest and most evil PM in history.

Gifted a huge majority with less votes than Corbyn but he couldn't control the evil within him. It brought him down in 2 years.

I will be polite and say "jog on" Starmer. You evil fascist.

4 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

The luckiest and most evil PM in history.

Gifted a huge majority with less votes than Corbyn but he couldn't control the evil within him. It brought him down in 2 years.

I will be polite and say "jog on" Starmer. You evil fascist.

Your posts are always amusing, and wind-up merchants are good for a Forum like this; but you do have a strange understanding of what "evil" means!

6 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I will be polite and say "jog on" Starmer. You evil fascist.

Fascists don't resign , they just stay in power no matter what the electorate think of them

21 hours ago, ukrules said:

I will be very surprised if he steps down and would think they're going to have to kick him out which may result in a general election.

I am indeed very surprised.....

8 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Fascists don't resign , they just stay in power no matter what the electorate think of them

Weak fascists resign.

Starmer is a weak cowardly fascist.

5 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Weak fascists resign.

Starmer is a weak cowardly fascist.

He did quite well in deporting illegal immigrants though , better than the Tories in the last 17 years

14 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Your posts are always amusing, and wind-up merchants are good for a Forum like this; but you do have a strange understanding of what "evil" means!

Just as people with multiple usernames generate traffic.

Starmer is pure evil. Now he's resigned we will see what else comes out about him and his debauchery.

Putin doesnt generally hire Ukranian rent boys to vandalise the wrong car.

20 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

He did quite well in deporting illegal immigrants though , better than the Tories in the last 17 years

He let far more in than the Tories as well.

And locked up Brits who objected.

15 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

He let far more in than the Tories as well.

And locked up Brits who objected.

Yet UK immigration and overall net immigration have fallen sharply, as have asylum claims. This is all despite the false perception put out by the likes of Reform that it is rising. Most of those on the right also conveniently forget that the surge in legal immigration came after Brexit( that was supposed to reduce it), and was a direct result of policies enacted under Boris Johnson. Not Starmer. Not Labour. All that is left to generate the outrage is illegal immigration that accounts for less than five percent of the total, and idiots who were deservedly locked up for rioting and hate speech. Perhaps the cold, hard facts need talking about more as the support for Reform and Farage, as evidenced by their run of by-election defeats, continues to fall.

1 hour ago, Summerinsiam said:

Yet UK immigration and overall net immigration have fallen sharply, as have asylum claims. This is all despite the false perception put out by the likes of Reform that it is rising. Most of those on the right also conveniently forget that the surge in legal immigration came after Brexit( that was supposed to reduce it), and was a direct result of policies enacted under Boris Johnson. Not Starmer. Not Labour. All that is left to generate the outrage is illegal immigration that accounts for less than five percent of the total, and idiots who were deservedly locked up for rioting and hate speech. Perhaps the cold, hard facts need talking about more as the support for Reform and Farage, as evidenced by their run of by-election defeats, continues to fall.

Native brits are fleeing and being replaced by the stabby rapey cultural enrichers.

Hardly a positive trend.

Obviously I can't say too much or Starmer will throw me in jail.

58 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Native brits are fleeing and being replaced by the stabby rapey cultural enrichers.

Hardly a positive trend.

Obviously I can't say too much or Starmer will throw me in jail.

You seem to be getting Starmer mixed up with Rimmer

3 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Your posts are always amusing, and wind-up merchants are good for a Forum like this

I couldn't disagree more.

8 minutes ago, RayC said:

I couldn't disagree more.

He used to wind me up until I realised he just likes stirring things up and provoking people. It would be rather dull without him and @BarraMarra !

5 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

He used to wind me up until I realised he just likes stirring things up and provoking people. It would be rather dull without him and @BarraMarra !

Same. I just can't take Jonny seriously anymore as he is over-the-top pantomime. It's just amusing, go along with it. And he can give it and take it, he doesn't flounce.

No going to comment on Bazzer as he is a sensitive chap. Jonny seems to have a thicker skin, and definitely a thicker skull - not much penetrates it.

On 6/21/2026 at 12:24 PM, Summerinsiam said:

Nonsense. He will use the remaining three years to try to turn things around. There will be no election until 2029. Reform has now lost the last three by-elections and Farage is in hiding.

Isn't that the last four by-elections? Two in Scotland, did Reform even stand in them. Then Gorton and Makerfield. Wouldn't have expected Reform to do well in either. So Labour won one of the four, hell the Conservatives won one of the four. So winning one in four by-elections isn't much to crow about. In 2024 Labour's share of the vote was pathetic and only marginally higher than 2019 when Corbyn was the leader for God's sake. So Labour will go into the 2029 election less popular that they were in 2024. Labour really are deluded if they think they can turn this around. I assume that useless Rachel Reeves will soon be gone as well.

A question to the Starmer fan boy's on here : In 2025 in January Starmer and his party voted against an amendment which called for the statutory national inquiry into grooming gangs. Labour voted against it winning by over 200 votes, so i'm asking why did they vote against this was it as Starmer stated numerouse times he will protect the children of the UK, so tell us why did labour vote against this bill.

26 minutes ago, BarraMarra said:

A question to the Starmer fan boy's on here : In 2025 in January Starmer and his party voted against an amendment which called for the statutory national inquiry into grooming gangs. Labour voted against it winning by over 200 votes, so i'm asking why did they vote against this was it as Starmer stated numerouse times he will protect the children of the UK, so tell us why did labour vote against this bill.

I'm not really considered a Starmer fan boy but I will answer anyway seeing as the posters above are clearly missing me and can't stop talking about me.

It's because he uses "saving the children" as a reason to implement many of his most vile policies. Like censorship, digital ID, banning social media, removal of freedom of speech etc.

All while protecting child rapists because he considers them a superior racial group to the indigenous British girls that they raped. Not to mention jailing those who are exposing the truth about these rape gangs.

His really is a disgusting specimen and I hope one day he wakes up in a cold sweat as he realises what a fascistic, racist piece of excrement he is.

1 hour ago, BarraMarra said:

A question to the Starmer fan boy's on here : In 2025 in January Starmer and his party voted against an amendment which called for the statutory national inquiry into grooming gangs. Labour voted against it winning by over 200 votes, so i'm asking why did they vote against this was it as Starmer stated numerouse times he will protect the children of the UK, so tell us why did labour vote against this bill.

To answer the question, the Tory amendment was cynically tied to the government's major child safeguarding legislation. Passing it would have derailed the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which contained crucial provisions for home-schooling regulation and academy changes.

In June 2025, following the Casey report, the government established a statutory national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation with an independent chair and full statutory powers.

Hope this helps.

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

To answer the question, the Tory amendment was cynically tied to the government's major child safeguarding legislation. Passing it would have derailed the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which contained crucial provisions for home-schooling regulation and academy changes.

In June, following the Casey report, the government established a statutory national inquiry into group-based child sexual exploitation with an independent chair and full statutory powers.

Hhope this helps.

No it Doesn't Brewster your deflecting I will ask you once more Why did the labour party vote against an amendment to protect children.

On 6/21/2026 at 10:33 PM, JonnyF said:

Get out you horrible fascist tyrant.

Shame on all those who supported his tyranny.

Hopefully freedom of speech can now return to the UK.

Davos beware. A monster is coming.

Ah Jonny, good to see you've moved over to support the democratically elected government: "Hopefully freedom of speech can now return to the UK".

It's noted that although you managed to insert "fascist tyrant" into your oh so illuminating post you showed great restraint in not using your favourite insult "racist".

There's hope for you yet mate.

23 hours ago, JonnyF said:

He let far more in than the Tories as well.

And locked up Brits who objected.

"locked up Brits who objected".

Hmm.... is that a euphemism for far right fomenters of hate posting online to encourage the knuckle scraping, low IQ morons to burn terrified humans alive in their accommodation?

Just asking questions.

On 6/22/2026 at 2:21 PM, BarraMarra said:

Remind us all Brewster what Starmer stopped as soon as he unpacked in 10 Downing Street.

Here you are.

The first thing that Starmer stopped was the corrupt "Rwanda deal" which saved the UK around £1 billion.

There's yer answer.

2 hours ago, Red Forever said:

"locked up Brits who objected".

Hmm.... is that a euphemism for far right fomenters of hate posting online to encourage the knuckle scraping, low IQ morons to burn terrified humans alive in their accommodation?

Just asking questions.

Here you are.

The first thing that Starmer stopped was the corrupt "Rwanda deal" which saved the UK around £1 billion.

There's yer answer.

Second thing was to bash pensioners, what a nice guy. Forgot after a certain incident in Southport tried to hush it up.

4 hours ago, Red Forever said:

"locked up Brits who objected".

Hmm.... is that a euphemism for far right fomenters of hate posting online to encourage the knuckle scraping, low IQ morons to burn terrified humans alive in their accommodation?

Just asking questions.

Here you are.

The first thing that Starmer stopped was the corrupt "Rwanda deal" which saved the UK around £1 billion.

There's yer answer.

Nah he took away winter fuel payments fron pensioners. Plus the hotels in Rwanda would be filled with immigrants turfed out of the UK instead of living next door to you Labourites. Well done and from now on you can pay for your own suits.