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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Catherine West backs down from Starmer challenge but urges him to go by September

Composite of West and Starmer
Catherine West and Keir Starmer. Under Labour rules, at least 81 MPs need to back a challenge for one to happen. Composite: Alamy/Getty Images

Catherine West, the Labour MP who announced a challenge to Keir Starmer’s leadership, has changed course to say she instead wants the prime minister to set a timetable of September for his departure.

West, the MP for Hornsey and Friern Barnet and a former Foreign Office minister, announced on Saturday that she would seek to gather the 81 Labour MPs’ names needed to formally challenge Starmer, saying this was just a device to tempt others to stand and that she did not wish to take over.

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