Starmer faces Labour leadership challenge deadline

Labour MP Catherine West has told the BBC that unless a senior cabinet figure launches a leadership challenge against Keir Starmer by Monday, she will attempt to trigger a contest herself. The pressure follows bruising local election results in England, where Reform made historic gains and the Greens stripped Labour control of Lewisham and Lambeth. The first-past-the-post system, long a Labour ally, has now turned sharply against it.