The Resignation WatchTracking Labour Government Exits
Tracking Labour exits as the Starmer government unravels
Westminster · Rolling tally
9 resignations from Sir Keir's government since the local elections.
After catastrophic local election losses on 7 May, ministers and parliamentary aides have been walking out and more than fifty Labour MPs have publicly called on the Prime Minister to set a timetable for his departure. Each entry below is automatically scraped from multiple reputable outlets and merged when more than one confirms the same exit.
Awaiting first scrape · using cached snapshot
The ledger
Filed under: Government departures- №0157 days agoThu 14 May, 14:03
Wes Streeting
Health Secretary
MP for Ilford North
“It is now clear that you will not lead the Labour Party into the next general election.”
- №0259 days agoTue 12 May, 13:47
Alex Davies-Jones
Minister for Victims and Violence against Women and Girls
MP for Pontypridd
“I cannot in conscience continue while the country and the party are crying out for change at the top.”
- №0359 days agoTue 12 May, 13:04
Jess Phillips
Safeguarding Minister, Home Office
MP for Birmingham Yardley
“Real progress on violence against women has so often come because I have been willing to threaten to walk. Today I am walking.”
- №0459 days agoTue 12 May, 09:20
Miatta Fahnbulleh
Minister for Devolution, Faith and Communities
MP for Peckham
“I urge the Prime Minister to do the right thing for the country and the party and set a timetable for an orderly transition.”
- №0560 days agoMon 11 May, 19:58
Melanie Ward
PPS at the Department for Justice
MP for Cowdenbeath & Kirkcaldy
- №0660 days agoMon 11 May, 18:38
Naushabah Khan
PPS at the Cabinet Office
MP for Gillingham & Rainham
“The Prime Minister has lost the confidence of the party and the public.”
- №0760 days agoMon 11 May, 18:18
Sally Jameson
PPS at the Home Office
MP for Doncaster Central
- №0860 days agoMon 11 May, 18:10
Tom Rutland
PPS to the Environment Secretary, Emma Reynolds (Defra)
MP for East Worthing & Shoreham
“I no longer have faith that the Prime Minister can meet the scale of the moment.”
- №0960 days agoMon 11 May, 18:09
Joe Morris
PPS to the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting
MP for Hexham
Off the wire
BBC News
Cabinet split as Mahmood calls on Starmer to set out timetable to goMetro
Labour MPs quit in droves with 55 calling for Sir Keir Starmer to stand downBBC News
Catherine West says Keir Starmer should go but pulls back from leadership challengeEvening Standard
All the Labour MPs calling on Starmer to quit following humiliating local election defeat