{"id":651783,"date":"2026-06-22T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651783\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T07:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T07:22:21","slug":"is-u-k-prime-minister-keir-starmer-set-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/651783\/","title":{"rendered":"Is U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer Set to Resign?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cThe reality right now is that there is process under way, there are people who seek to challenge Keir,\u201d added Kyle, who said he had shared a conversation with Starmer on Friday but declined to disclose what was discussed.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Hours after the Business Secretary\u2019s remarks, and as speculation mounted over Starmer\u2019s political future, U.S. President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116788451975276121\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>: \u201cKeir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">He argued the British leader had \u201cfailed badly on two very important subjects\u2014immigration and energy,\u201d doubling down on his long-argued stance that the U.K. should expand its drilling in the North Sea.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Although the two once shared a strong alliance, the relationship between Trump and Starmer has become increasingly splintered amid the fallout of the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">International inputs aside, Starmer\u2019s vulnerability in the party he led to victory in the July 2024 General Election has been brewing for months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe reality right now is that there is process under way, there are people who seek to challenge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,595,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-651783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-news-desk","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651783","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=651783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}