Top minister openly calls for Prime Minister to step down

Top minister openly calls for Prime Minister to step down

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander publicly asked Prime Minister Keir Starmer to say when he'll leave office on 19 June. She's the first senior minister to do this—normally ministers resign quietly rather than challenge the PM in public. The pressure mounts after 72 Labour MPs earlier called for Starmer to quit following poor local election results.

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