Starmer Clings On as Calls to Quit Grow
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Good morning. Keir Starmer clings to power ahead of the King’s speech. Donald Trump heads to Beijing with executives including Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. And Jamie Dimon warns he may scrap plans for a London headquarters. Listen to the day’s top stories.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer remained in post despite a growing chorus of calls for his resignation, including four junior ministers who quit. Traders are at their most bearish on the pound in five weeks, with odds putting his chances of surviving beyond this year at one in five. Still, removing a Labour leader is a difficult process, and it has never happened in the party’s history. All this comes ahead of the King’s speech, which is set to lay out a packed legislative agenda.