The Labour party is pretty useless when it comes to getting rid of its leaders. That’s the only reason Keir Starmer is still squatting in Downing Street after an extraordinary 48 hours of resignations and plots. The PM is badly wounded, his premiership hanging by a thread, but there appears to be no one yet capable of delivering the fatal blow.Part of the problem in trying to get shot of Starmer is that his would-be assassins know all too well the party’s chequered history of failed and aborted coups. It gives them cause to pause. The Labour party has never successfully mounted an official challenge against a serving prime minister. It is a point that Starmer, ‘Mr Rules’, knows all too well.

Those plotting a coup to get rid of Starmer can shout and scream all they like but they have little room to manoeuvre if he chooses not to quit

Those plotting a coup to get rid of Starmer can shout and scream all they like but they have little room to manoeuvre if he chooses not to quit

It had been widely reported, ahead of yesterday’s cabinet meeting that ministers were queuing up to tell the PM that his time was........

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