Keir Starmer

Analysis: Resignation promise has been praised as a bold move but not everyone in the Labour camp is convinced it's the right one.

In the event that Starmer’s gamble backfires, ending in his resignation, it is not clear who else will benefit. Johnson is still facing the prospect of potential further fines from the police. Once again, the difference will be clear compared with Johnson, who has refused to resign in the face of a police Covid fine.

Keir Starmer has committed to doing “the right thing and step down” as Labour leader in Britain if he is fined by police over an allegation he broke ...

We have a Prime Minister who has been found to have broken the rules, lied about it and then been fined. In January, Mr Starmer said the British Prime Minister “needs to do the decent thing and resign” after he became embroiled in lockdown breach allegations. “But if the police decide to issue me with a fixed-penalty notice I would, of course, do the right thing and step down.”

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to offer his resignation if he is issued a fixed penalty notice for breaking COVID rules. Sir Keir has come under ...

What would Sir Keir do if Durham Police rule that he broke the rules but isn't fined, Beth asked. The charge against the Labour leader from his political opponents has been self-righteous hypocrisy. "That is his choice. Bet she's delighted at being dragged back into the Starmer drama. Pressed on whether he would quit if it was determined that there was a breach of the rules but he is not issued with a fine, Sir Keir said he had not broken the rules and added: "The penalty for a COVID breach is a fixed-penalty notice, that's a matter of law, and I've set out what the position is in relation to that." "The prime minister has chosen not to resign, notwithstanding that, not only has he broken the law that he made, but 50 fines being imposed in relation to the workplace that he is responsible for.

British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer has committed to doing "the right thing and step down" as Labour leader if he is fined by police over an allegation ...

"That is his choice. Asked if he jumped the gun in calling for the Prime Minister and Chancellor's resignations when they were only under investigation for breaking the rules, Mr Starmer said: "I'm setting out my position in relation to the events of the last few days. Mr Starmer would not directly address the question of whether he was right to call for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to resign when he was under investigation for breaking the rules.

The Labour leader is under pressure as police investigate if rules were broken in April 2021.

A takeaway was made available in the kitchen, and he ate between work demands. No rules were broken." He reiterated his insistence that he had not broken the rules and suggested his opponents "didn't believe it themselves" but were simply trying "to get the public to believe all politicians are the same". "If the police decide to issue me with a fixed-penalty notice, I would of course do the right thing and step down." Addressing the issue on Monday, Sir Keir said he had "always followed the rules" and outlined how Covid rules had prevented him from offering support to his father-in-law when his wife's mother died. In the long term, if he avoids a fine, it could help define him - and his character - in the public's mind.

In a dramatic statement on Monday, the Labour leader said he would do the "right thing" if issued with a fine for breaking COVID rules.

What would Sir Keir do if Durham Police rule that he broke the rules but isn't fined, Beth asked. The charge against the Labour leader from his political opponents has been self-righteous hypocrisy. "That is his choice. Bet she's delighted at being dragged back into the Starmer drama. Pressed on whether he would quit if it was determined that there was a breach of the rules but he is not issued with a fine, Sir Keir said he had not broken the rules and added: "The penalty for a COVID breach is a fixed-penalty notice, that's a matter of law, and I've set out what the position is in relation to that." In a dramatic statement on Monday, the Labour leader said he would do the "right thing" if issued with a fine for breaking COVID rules.

Keir Starmer is mulling with close allies whether to commit to resigning as Labour leader in the UK if he is issued with a fine by Durham police for a ...

A poll by YouGov in the UK found that 46 per cent of the public believed Mr Starmer should resign if he is fined by Durham police for breaching Covid rules. “The idea that Keir has been dodging questions… Keir Starmer is mulling with close allies whether to commit to resigning as Labour leader in the UK if he is issued with a fine by Durham police for a breach of Covid rules.

Policing minister Kit Malthouse says Labour leader has to 'set his own standards'

Malthouse told Sky News the police force would meet “high standards” regardless of any alleged pressure. But Keir Starmer has to speak for himself and set his own standards.” In a statement on Monday, the Labour leader said he would do the “right thing” if he was issued with a fixed-penalty notice in relation to a gathering in Labour offices in Durham in April last year.

Labour leader's pledge to resign if fined for breaking lockdown rules puts spotlight on potential successors.

News comes as it emerges Labour is preparing dossier to show team worked late on night in question.

They will take accounts from those in the constituency office to determine whether they had a reasonable excuse for their actions. The dossier includes time-stamped logs of WhatsApp chats, documents and video edits. Labour initially denied her presence, raising questions about the accuracy of the party’s account.

Keir Starmer has chosen to gamble his political career on the result of Durham police's investigation into a curry and beer gathering last year, ...

Partly as a consequence of the country lurching from crisis to crisis, Starmer’s pitch to the British public so far has focused more on the differences between him and Johnson than on how Labour would change the country. If he was going to go anyway then pre-empting the decision and piling the pressure on the Prime Minister was a smart decision. The key question for Starmer was whether he was going to resign anyway if he was fined.

Last week's election performance by the British Labour Party was deeply underwhelming. Despite enjoying every advantage, Keir Starmer has failed to convert ...

In relation to the cost of living crisis, Starmer and his shadow chancellor have been pushing the idea of a windfall tax on the oil companies to fund a £600 energy bill relief payment. But there was one big problem with making this a central plank of Labour’s local election campaign: no matter how many seats Labour won, it would never be in a position to deliver on the pledge. Like the rest of Europe and indeed the world, Britain is in the grips of a cost-of-living crisis. Meanwhile, the personal standing of Boris Johnson has collapsed after revelations that he hosted and took part in as many as seventeen parties in Downing Street while the country was under pandemic lockdown restrictions. Inflation is expected to reach double digits by the end of the year, and economists are forecasting that a recession is imminent. Croydon is a fiefdom of Labour’s right-wing faction whose council leadership was on the hook for catastrophic financial mismanagement and a determination to favor the interests of property developers over those of local residents. To make matters worse, the Conservative chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has insisted that nothing can be done to relieve these economic pressures. In Tower Hamlets, Labour’s defeat came at the hands of a very different political challenger. In Scotland, the party elected 20 new councillors while the Tories lost 63; in England, there was a net gain of just 29 versus Tory losses of 342. Barnet is one of the London councils that the Labour Party won control of in last week’s English local elections. Under the leadership of Mark Drakeford, who serves as first minister in the Welsh regional government, the party has successfully reinvented itself in office around a recognizably social democratic program. The only exception to this rule was Wales. While the party gained 115 new councillors, over half of them hailed from Welsh Labour, which has a distinctive political profile.

Labour's advantage is that in a hung parliament no party will even contemplate dealing with Boris Johnson.

It has the big strategic positions and a lot of detailed policy that nobody knows anything about. Durham Constabulary might yet make a mockery of this prediction but, barring disaster, Keir Starmer is on course to be Labour’s first prime minister in a decade and a half. Between them, the Tories and Labour won 82.4 per cent of the vote in 2017 and 75.8 per cent in 2019. His positive public remarks on the need for good business to thrive are a world away from the rhetoric of Miliband. He has broken decisively and impressively with Jeremy Corbyn on the existence of anti-Semitism within Labour and on the importance of the Nato alliance. There is no doubt that excitement is a political asset, but it is worth noting that this demand is only ever made of the political left. All of which spreadsheet reasoning should at least provoke a pause in the constant demands that Starmer produce his vision for Britain. The leader of the Labour party is repeatedly called upon to excite the voters with a florid account of what his government might do. These results are well within the range that would displace Johnson. It really is an indictment of the British electoral system that the Prime Minister could be replaced by an opposition that wins a third of the vote on a turnout of two thirds of the electorate, but that could happen. Almost 50 years ago to the day, the local elections of 1972 produced a Labour performance widely written up as disappointing. On the day that Starmer became the leader of the opposition the Conservative Party was leading Labour by 52 per cent to 28, according to YouGov. In the last opinion poll, taken before the local elections, Labour led the Conservatives 39-33. If Labour wins 35 per cent at the general election, the Conservatives need to hit at least 39 per cent to win outright. The least written reaction to the local elections is that Keir Starmer is very likely to be prime minister. London is now a thoroughly Labour city but, compared with 2018 when these seats were last contested, the party fell back in its share of the vote in every other region of Great Britain. The polling expert John Curtice projected these local results into a national share of the vote of 35 per cent, with the Tories on 30 per cent.