{"id":505236,"date":"2026-06-22T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:02:09","slug":"keir-starmer-resigns-as-prime-minister-and-leader-of-labour-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/505236\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister and leader of Labour Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will there be a new prime minister?published at 10:19 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:19 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keir Starmer walks away from podium\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9dd7c437-f5c5-4bf9-b43a-5cd0779ee613.jpg.webp\"  width=\"6384\" height=\"3591\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Keir Starmer said he will ask the Labour Party&#8217;s National Executive Committee that nominations for the party&#8217;s new leader open on 9 July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said this will be completed &#8220;by the summer recess&#8221;, which is a week later, on 16 July. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the case of a contest, this will ensure a new leader is in place by the time Parliament returns from its summer break on 1 September, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As we&#8217;ve been reporting, it&#8217;s unclear if there will be a contest over the next Labour leader. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If, for instance, Andy Burnham were to run unchallenged when the contest opens on 9 July, he could become Labour leader after nominations close.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until this is decided, Starmer will remain as prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When will there be a new prime minister?published at 10:19 BST 10:19 BST Image source, EPA\/Shutterstock Keir Starmer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-505236","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\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}