{"id":5401,"date":"2026-05-13T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5401"},"modified":"2026-05-13T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:10:00","slug":"kir-starmer-i-will-fight-the-battle-if-a-process-to-challenge-my-leadership-is-initiated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5401","title":{"rendered":"Kir Starmer: I will fight the battle if a process to challenge my leadership is initiated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>British prime minister<\/b> appeared resolute in the <b>Parliament<\/b>, signalling he would defend his position if his main political rival started the process of ousting him.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The Labour Party in Britain is entering a fierce intra-party conflict, with Prime Minister <b>Kir Starmer<\/b> preparing for a showdown for survival. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">The Times reports that <b>Starmer<\/b> has indicated to close allies that he will fight to the end if <b>Health Minister Wes Streting<\/b> files a formal leadership challenge tomorrow (Thursday). <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Tensions came to a head after the two men met briefly and fruitlessly on Downing Street, <b>with rumours of Streting&#8217;s impending resignation and claim to the premiership thickening<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">Despite the pressure, Starmer appeared combative in the House of Commons immediately after King Charles&#8217; speech, stressing he would not renounce his values in the face of &#8220;<b>politics of rancor and division<\/b>&#8220;. <\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"2\">He even pledged to focus on economic security, immigration and improving the health system, <b>areas that are central to the debate with Stretching<\/b>, making it clear that his intention is to continue to govern despite domestic threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British prime minister appeared resolute in parliament, signalling he would defend his position if his main political rival &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","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\/5401","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=5401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}