{"id":417689,"date":"2026-02-10T08:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417689\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:36:08","slug":"this-must-be-moment-of-change-for-labour-miliband-says-after-day-of-peril-for-starmer-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417689\/","title":{"rendered":"This must be moment of change for Labour, Miliband says after day of ‘peril’ for Starmer – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"For now, Starmer sees off a moment of maximum dangerpublished at 07:07 GMT<\/p>\n

07:07 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Chris Mason
Political editor<\/p>\n

The prime minister has had a political near-death experience \u2013 and survived, for now at least.<\/p>\n

At various points, he looked like he might be done for and imminently.<\/p>\n

If Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar’s desire to dislodge Keir Starmer had had public accomplices, that could have been it.<\/p>\n

There was a crucial pivot point on Monday afternoon when things could have gone in one of two ways.<\/p>\n

If others had said Starmer should go, he might not have got to the end of the day without announcing his departure.<\/p>\n

But instead, there was a rallying of support from the cabinet and from various wings of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear: missives of loyalty from cabinet ministers towards the prime minister shouldn’t be newsworthy and they only become so when the opposite seems feasible.<\/p>\n

The sheer volume of social media posts only served to underline just how perilous Starmer’s position had been: he needed political scaffolding to prop him up from wherever it could be found.<\/p>\n

But that support did come and he has seen off, for now, the moment of maximum danger for him.<\/p>\n

Continue reading my analysis about why Labour has decided to stick with Starmer – for now.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For now, Starmer sees off a moment of maximum dangerpublished at 07:07 GMT 07:07 GMT Chris MasonPolitical editor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-417689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417689","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=417689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}