It is a question of “when, not if” Sir Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister, Britain’s leading pollster has warned, as the Labour Party braces itself for a devastating set of results at the local elections on Thursday.
While Professor Sir John Curtice said the prime minister may cling on in the wake of the results because there is no clear successor to take over, he argued that the likelihood of Sir Keir leading Labour to the next general election “is very low indeed”.
