The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is fighting to save his premiership as a growing number of his own lawmakers call on him to quit amid a rebellion within the governing Labour party.
It follows disastrous results in last week’s local elections, which saw the hard-right Reform UK party make huge gains. The Conservative Party – the other half of the duopoly that has dominated British politics for more than a century – also lost hundreds of seats.
The crisis looks set to tip Britain back into the political chaos which has defined its last decade. If Starmer chooses to step aside, or is ousted, his successor would become Britain’s seventh prime minister in 10 years.