Sir Mel Stride has told Sky News Peter Kyle’s comments this morning suggest the prime minister’s colleagues are telling him to go.
He told Trevor Phillips: "It sounds like it means what a lot of Keir Starmer’s colleagues are doing, which is to basically tell him that his time is up."
The shadow chancellor also said that Andy Burnham "taking over would be bad and in the wrong direction" and that Reform UK are "increasingly toxic amongst an increasingly large proportion of the population".
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