Starmer’s UK Rivals Circle Before Make-or-Break Reset Speech

Keir Starmer gives a speech in London, on May 11.

Photographer: James Manning/PA/AP Photo

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s political problems have likely grown too big to solve with a single speech. For now, he will try to forestall an immediate challenge to his job.

Starmer will make a last-ditch effort to save his premiership on Monday morning with a politically charged address designed to hold back calls for a change in leadership atop Britain’s governing Labour Party. Several would-be contenders are sitting on the sidelines, weighing whether to join a scramble for the prime minister’s job as soon as the premier stops talking.