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Keir Starmer to hold talks with Wes Streeting on Wednesday morning | Politics | News

Keir Starmer to hold talks with Wes Streeting on Wednesday morning | Politics | News

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to meet with Wes Streeting on Wednesday morning (Image: PA) Health Secretary Wes Streeting – seen as a leading contender to enter a future leadership race – is due to hold talks with the Prime Minister on Wednesday morning. He expected to ask Sir Keir how he plans to “get us out of this mess”. A belearguered Sir Keir Starmer is clinging to power in the face of ministerial resignations and scores of Labour MPs calling on him to go. The Labour leader’s hopes that ministers would not turn on him were dashed when four resigned during the course of the day. The biggest blow came when Jess Phillips, the minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, quit. A milestone was passed when the number of MPs calling for the Prime Minister to bring the curtain down on his time in Downing Street passed 81 – enough to trigger a leadership contest if they unite behind a single candidate. Deputy prime minister David Lammy insists no rival is …