
The first minister has resigned from Sir Keir Starmer’s Government, piling pressure on the beleaguered Labour leader to quit.
Housing, communities and local government minister Miatta Fahnbulleh told the Prime Minister “to do the right thing for the country and the party, and set a timetable for an orderly transition” as the public had lost trust in him because of issues such as the scrapping of the winter fuel payment.