Following their resounding electoral defeat, lame-duck PM Keir Starmer and his hangers-on are again resorting to desperate measures.

Starmer like a tick

Almost 100 Labour MPs — and counting — signed a letter demanding Starmer’s immediate departure. A counter-letter supposedly signed by 100 MPs asking him to stay then suddenly appeared.

If not even a third of his party supported Starmer, that would be damaging enough. But even that low figure has been thrown into doubt, with three MPs named as signatories now saying they didn’t sign the letter.

Two of them spoke to Times journalist Aubrey Allegretti with the news:

A *second* Labour MP has been in touch to say they also didn’t agree to sign this loyalists’ statement. Make of that what you will.https://t.co/alRqv6HaJh

— Aubrey Allegretti (@breeallegretti) May 12, 2026

Not in my name

And Ealing Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq went direct to her social media to announce that she hadn’t signed either letter:

Surprised to see my name on this list when I haven’t either signed any letter supporting the PM or called for the PM to go??

Not very courteous of colleagues to put names down without their approval https://t.co/2TofoVdfKb

— Rupa Huq MP (@RupaHuq) May 12, 2026

So the ‘letter of support’ supposedly asking Starmer to stay in power is at least partially made up. The smart money’s on mostly made up.

Starmer’s position is untenable. The fact he’s still clinging on and claims not to get it yet is another sign how unfit he is for the job.

Featured image via the Labour Party

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