Keir Starmer’s cabinet is publicly fracturing with thirteen days until the local elections, as Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband distance themselves from the Prime Minister, and Labour MPs openly brief that he is a “dead man walking”.
Ministers have lost confidence in his leadership, describing the mood as “bleak”.
Reform UK is projected to take three London councils, including Barking and Dagenham, with Plaid Cymru set to take control of the Senedd.
The government fears fresh “Mandelson files” due for release shortly after 7 May could finish the Prime Minister.
Starmer has now prorogued Parliament to avoid further PMQs questioning on the scandal.
His own MPs are calling him a coward.
EU Finalises 90 Billion Euro Ukraine Loan In Cyprus
European Union leaders are finalising the ninety billion euro loan to Ukraine at the Cyprus summit today, alongside the formal adoption of the twentieth sanctions
24 April 2026
