"A Labour MP has dramatically warned would-be leaders in the Cabinet to challenge Sir Keir Starmer by Monday or she will - following the party's disastrous local election results. Catherine West, the MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, who was sacked by Sir Keir as a junior minister in the Foreign Office, said the Cabinet should reorganise themselves and put forward their best communicator to replace the PM, avoiding a contest. If that did not happen she would seek the 80 names needed to trigger a contest, she said."
"Speaking to The Independent, Ms West said: We had cataclysmic election results last week and our response so far does not match the emergency that faces us. Her intervention came as Sir Keir recruited party favorites Gordon Brown and Baroness Harriet Harman to try and help secure his flagging premiership. Catherine West has warned she will run against Keir Starmer (Labour Party) As the scale of Labour's failures at the ballot box emerged, The Independent has also learnt that some senior ministers were attempting to prevent a leadership election amid fears that the former deputy pr"
Catherine West, Labour MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet, warned would-be Cabinet leaders to challenge Sir Keir Starmer by Monday. She said the Cabinet should reorganise and put forward its best communicator to replace the prime minister, avoiding a leadership contest. If no action was taken, she said she would seek the 80 names needed to trigger a contest. West linked her intervention to “cataclysmic” local election results and said the party’s response did not match the emergency facing the country. She also said Sir Keir recruited Gordon Brown and Baroness Harriet Harman to help secure his premiership as Labour’s electoral failures became clearer.
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