A Labour Member of Parliament has given the cabinet until Monday to remove party leader Keir Starmer, warning that she will challenge him herself if they fail to act. The former junior Foreign Office minister said her preferred outcome would be for senior ministers to reorganise and select their strongest communicator to take over without triggering a full leadership contest.

Her comments follow heavy election losses for Labour across England, Wales and Scotland. She said the scale of the defeats had left her with no choice but to put ministers 'on notice' and push for urgent change at the top of the party.