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Keir Starmer tells cabinet he is not resigning and leadership challenge has not been triggered – UK politics live

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Prime minister tells cabinet ‘the country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing’Minister resigns from Starmer government with call for PM to quitHere are some pictures from No 10 this morning.Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, is now being interviewed on the Today programme. Nick Robinson, the presenter, is asking him if he knows whether Keir Starmer has decided how to respond to the pressure on him to resign. Jones is avoiding the question, as he did on Sky News earlier. (See 7.43am.) Continue reading...

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Keir Starmer tells cabinet he is not resigning and leadership challenge has not been triggered – UK politics live

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