{"id":625514,"date":"2026-06-07T06:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T06:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625514\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T06:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T06:02:08","slug":"starmer-tells-supporters-he-will-fight-any-leadership-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/625514\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer tells supporters he will fight any leadership contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sir Keir Starmer has told supporters this weekend he will stand in any Labour leadership contest that is triggered. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until now, the prime minster and his allies insisted he would not walk away if one was held but there has been a big question mark over what he would actually do. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he would seek to enter any potential leadership contest, Sir Keir&#8217;s position hardened, the BBC understands &#8211; telling his supporters he would fight any challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The prime minister, who still believes a leadership contest could plunge the country into chaos, said he had won a massive majority two years ago and a mandate that he was determined to deliver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer has told supporters this weekend he will stand in any Labour leadership contest that is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-625514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625514","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=625514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}