Here is a summary of today's events
More than 70 Labour MPs publicly called for Keir Starmer to stand down, after a speech he gave to shore up his leadership after bruising local election results fell flat.
The Guardian understands that two senior cabinet ministers – Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, and Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary – told the prime minister he should oversee an orderly transition of power.
Tom Rutland, MP for East Worthing and Shoreham and PPS to the environment secretary, resigned because he thinks voter “animosity” to the PM means that Starmer can no longer stay, he said in a resignation statement.
Starmer made six appointments of MPs to become PPS, replacing the ones who resigned.
A Labour MP who made a high-profile stand against the government’s proposed jury reforms – by revealing, in the House of Commons, that she had been a victim of rape – called on Keir Starmer to resign, accuding the government of having “burned through a huge amount of political capital” on plans that were not in Labour’s manifesto, such as the courts and tribunals bill.
Updated
Keir Starmer has made appointments of new Parliamentary Private Secretaries to replace the ones who resigned today, possibly signalling his determination to continue despite calls for him to resign from over 70 of his own MPs.
The following PPS appointments have been made:
David Burton-Sampson – Department for Health and Social Care
Linsey Farnsworth MP – Ministry of Justice
Jayne Kirkham MP – Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Michael Payne MP – Home Office
Tim Roca MP – Department for Work and Pensions
Sean Woodcock MP – Cabinet Office
