{"id":650268,"date":"2026-06-21T08:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650268\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:32:10","slug":"sunday-with-laura-kuenssberg-starmer-faces-pressure-as-business-secretary-to-be-quizzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/650268\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: Starmer faces pressure as business secretary to be quizzed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pressure mounting on Starmer, as Kuenssberg to question business secretarypublished at 07:50 BST<\/p>\n

07:50 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Matt Spivey
Live editor<\/p>\n

\"Britain'sImage source, Reuters<\/p>\n

It’s that time of the week again. <\/p>\n

Laura Kuenssberg is set to question key political players after a gruelling week for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.<\/p>\n

Andy Burnham’s big win in the Makerfield by-election on Thursday night paved the way for his return to Parliament, and he’s heavily tipped to stand a chance at getting the top job.<\/p>\n

Following the former Greater Manchester mayor’s victory, Starmer vowed to stand in any leadership race and called on the party to “pull together”.<\/p>\n

The PM faces mounting pressure from cabinet ministers and a growing number of MPs to set out his plan for an “orderly transition”.<\/p>\n

Downing Street said on Sunday morning that the prime minister was “getting on with the job” and that his position of being “determined to fight for his job” had not changed.<\/p>\n

On this week’s show, Business Secretary Peter Kyle and shadow chancellor Mel Stride will take to the hot seat.<\/p>\n

We’ll also be hearing from former Starmer adviser Paul Ovenden, former Cabinet Secretary Lord Case, and former defence Secretary Lord Hutton. <\/p>\n

You can watch the programme live at the top of this page from 09:00 BST and we’ll bring you the key developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pressure mounting on Starmer, as Kuenssberg to question business secretarypublished at 07:50 BST 07:50 BST Matt SpiveyLive editor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650268","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\/650268","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=650268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}