{"id":12148,"date":"2026-06-22T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12148"},"modified":"2026-06-22T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:54:00","slug":"british-prime-minister-keir-starmer-has-resigned-i-listened-to-my-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12148","title":{"rendered":"British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned: \u201cI listened to my party\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of Britain,\u00a0<b>Keir Starmer,<\/b> announced his resignation from the leadership of the <b>Labour Party<\/b> on Monday morning at the entrance to Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>As he stated, he has informed King Charles of his decision.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s new leader is expected to be appointed before September, when Parliament resumes its work after the summer, <b>thus paving the way for the country to have its seventh prime minister in 10 years<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two years after Labor\u2019s landslide victory in the July 2024 general election, Starmer stated that it is clear the party wants him to step down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<b>The question my party is now asking is whether I am in the best position to lead us into the next election. I have heard my party\u2019s answer to that question, and I accept it in good faith<\/b>,\u201d he said, emphasizing that all the decisions he has made were aimed at \u201cputting the country I love first.\u201d \u201cI will step down as leader of the Labour Party,\u201d Starmer said.<\/p>\n<p>He clarified that <b>nominations for his successor as Labour leader will open on July 9, and the process will be completed by the summer recess<\/b>. This means that the party\u2019s new leader will be chosen before September.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, he will remain prime minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister&nbsp;Keir Starmer announced his resignation as leader of the Labour Party on Monday morning at the entrance to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}