Over 100 Labour MPs sign letter backing Keir Starmer and opposing leadership contest – see the full list
More MPs have signed this letter than have called for Starmer to go
More than 100 backbench Labour MPs and parliamentary private secretaries have signed an open letter backing the prime minister Keir Starmer and saying now is ‘no time for a leadership contest’.
According to a report from the Guardian’s Jessica Elgot, the letter says: Last week we had a devastatingly tough set of election results. It shows we have a hard job ahead to win back trust from the electorate.”
“That job needs to start today – with all of us working together to deliver the change the country needs. We must focus on that. This is no time for a leadership contest.”
111 Labour MPs are reported to have signed the letter. That’s higher than the number of MPs who have publicly called for Starmer to go, which at the time of writing sits at 89.
The letter comes on a day when Starmer has faced increasing pressure to resign. Not only have those 89 MPs called for his departure, three ministers have resigned from the government making the same call – Miatta Fahnbulleh, Jess Phillips and Alex Davies-Jones.
Starmer has continued to maintain that he intends to remain as prime minister and resist calls for his resignation.
The full list of signatories of the letter supporting Starmer is as follows:
- Jack Abbott
- Luke Akehurst
- Bayo Alaba
- Callum Anderson
- Catherine Atkinson
- Calvin Bailey
- Alex Baker
- Antonia Bance
- Alex Barros-Curtis
- Johanna Baxter
- Rachel Blake
- Kevin Bonavia
- Sureena Brackenridge
- Phil Brickell
- David Burton-Sampson
- Ruth Cadbury
- Juliet Campbell
- Bambos Charalambous
- Ben Coleman
- Tom Collins
- Liam Conlon
- Pam Cox
- Neil Coyle
- Jonathan Davies
- Shaun Davies
- Jim Dickson
- Helena Dollimore
- Maria Eagle
- Clive Efford
- Kirith Entwistle
- Chris Evans
- Linsey Farnsworth
- Patricia Ferguson
- Natalie Fleet
- Catherine Fookes
- Daniel Francis
- Allison Gardner
- Anna Gelderd
- Gill German
- Preet Kaur Gill
- Becky Gittens
- Nia Griffith
- Amanda Hack
- Fabian Hamilton
- Carolyn Harris
- Lloyd Hatton
- Tom Hayes
- Claire Hazelgrove
- Alison Hume
- Rupa Huq
- Patrick Hurley
- Gerald Jones
- Sojan Joseph
- Warinder Juss
- Chris Kane
- Jayne Kirkham
- Sonia Kumar
- Laura Kyrke-Smith
- Noah Law
- Andrew Lewin
- Alice Macdonald
- Alex Mayer
- Douglas Mcallister
- Lola McAvoy
- Kerry McCarthy
- Julie Minns
- Perran Moon
- Luke Murphy
- Chris Murray
- Josh Newbury
- Samantha Niblett
- Abena Oppong-Asare
- Tristan Osborne
- Andrew Pakes
- Michael Payne
- Jonathan Pearce
- Toby Perkins
- David Pinto-Duschinsky
- Joe Powell
- Peter Prinsley
- Richard Quigley
- Jenny Riddle-Carpenter
- Tim Roca
- Matt Rodda
- Sam Rushworth
- Oli Ryan
- Michelle Scroogham
- Mark Sewards
- Baggy Shanker
- Tulip Siddiq
- Andy Slaughter
- John Slinger
- Nick Smith
- Alistair Strathern
- Alan Strickland
- Lauren Sullivan
- Kirsteen Sullivan
- Peter Swallow
- Alison Taylor
- David Taylor
- Jess Toale
- Matthew Turmaine
- Liz Twist
- Valerie Vaz
- Chris Vince
- Michelle Welsh
- Matt Western
- John Whitby
- Sean Woodcock
- Steve Yemm
- Daniel Zeichner
Chris Jarvis is head of strategy and development at Left Foot Forward
Image credit: Keir Starmer – Creative Commons
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