London, May 12, (PA Media/dpa/GNA) – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, is defying mounting calls for him to quit, telling a meeting of his Cabinet that the country “expects us to get on with governing” and “that is what I am doing.”
The prime minister’s woes deepened on Tuesday morning, as the first minister who resigned from his government urging him to go, and as the number of Labour MPs telling him to set out a timetable for his departure grew to 75.
According to Downing Street, Starmer told his Cabinet: “As I said yesterday, I take responsibility for these election results and I take responsibility for delivering the change we promised.
“The past 48 hours have been destabilising for government and that has a real economic cost for our country and for families.
“The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered.
“The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet.”
The meeting was expected to be fraught, with some ministers said to be joining calls for the prime minister to go.
GNA