{"id":752644,"date":"2026-06-22T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752644\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:16:09","slug":"keir-starmer-resigns-live-updates-british-pm-resigns-in-statement-andy-burnham-touted-as-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752644\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer resigns LIVE updates: British PM resigns in statement; Andy Burnham touted as successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour officials have confirmed their next steps in deciding a future leader in what could be a vote among thousands of party members, but everything depends on whether anyone emerges to run against the clear front-runner, Andy Burnham.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s National Executive Committee said it would meet to draft the plans for the contest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing the Prime Minister\u2019s announcement today that he intends to resign as leader of the Labour Party, Labour\u2019s ruling body, the National Executive Committee, will shortly agree a timetable for the election of the next leader of the Labour Party,\u201d it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer made no statement on who should replace him. In any case, the choice of leader is not his decision \u2013 it is up to Labour MPs and party members. But if nobody else stands, the top job will go to Burnham by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour officials have confirmed their next steps in deciding a future leader in what could be a vote&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-752644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}