Anonymousabout 4 hours ago
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces an existential political crisis after Labour lost nearly 1,500 council seats in the May 2026 local elections, with senior cabinet ministers including Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood and Foreign Secretary David Lammy urging him to set a departure timetable. The crisis has split the party between the Tribune group's demand for wealth taxes and looser fiscal rules, and those who warn that any such shift would trigger a gilt market meltdown reminiscent of the 2022 Truss mini-budget — a dilemma compounded by the fact that Labour's losses came from both working-class voters defecting to Reform UK and progressive voters moving to the Greens, two constituencies that demand opposite policy responses.