{"id":257708,"date":"2025-11-11T23:55:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257708\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T23:55:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T23:55:13","slug":"starmer-allies-launch-effort-to-ward-off-a-leadership-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/257708\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer Allies Launch Effort to Ward Off a Leadership Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Allies of Keir Starmer sought to ward off a feared leadership challenge from one of the British premier\u2019s best-known ministers, as cabinet feuds spilled into the open just weeks before the government is due to unveil a contentious budget. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Starmer\u2019s supporters privately accused Health Secretary Wes Streeting of plotting to replace the prime minister, according to people familiar with the matter, in an acknowledgment of his weakened position after months of Labour Party rebellions and stubbornly low poll numbers. They argued that any attempt to oust Starmer would risk a market shock and undermine the government\u2019s finances, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing internal disputes.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Allies of Keir Starmer sought to ward off a feared leadership challenge from one of the British premier\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[934,3907,591,59,80,57,58,73342,388,1768,50,229,1892,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-257708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-downing-street","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-gb","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-greatbritain","15":"tag-labour-party-the","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-manchester","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-taxes","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}