Keir Starmer has urged Labour frontbenchers to get leadership campaigns ready in case he is forced to resign over Beergate, according to reports.
The Labour leader told Wes Streeting and Lisa Nandy, two leading politicians tipped to replace him, they should prepare bids for the top job, a report in the Sunday Times said.
According to the paper, he has told moderates within the party that they must make plans to run and keep his post-Jeremy Corbyn reforms of the party.