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David Shaw@David90shaw · May 10, 2026

🚨 BREAKING: The Labour civil war just reached Keir Starmer's absolute inner circle. Josh Simons, a previously loyal…

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Labour MP Josh Simons, a key architect of Keir Starmer's rise to power, has publicly called for the Prime Minister's resignation in The Times, citing electoral failure. The demand signals potential civil war within Labour as MP Catherine West threatens to trigger a formal leadership challenge if the Cabinet doesn't act.

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    🚨 BREAKING: The Labour civil war just reached Keir Starmer's absolute inner circle. Josh Simons, a previously loyal MP who literally helped engineer Starmer's rise to power, has just publicly demanded the Prime Minister resign. The house of cards is completely collapsing. 🧵👇

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    Simons is not just a random backbencher. He ran the highly influential Labour Together think tank that built Starmer's foundation. But today, he published a brutal article in The Times stating that Starmer "has lost the country" and must step down. He admits the local elections were not just a mid term slump, but an "unequivocal judgment" that this government has failed.

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    This devastating betrayal comes right as Labour MP Catherine West warns she will formally trigger a leadership challenge tomorrow if the Cabinet refuses to act. She needs 81 MPs to pull the trigger. With Starmer's original loyalists now openly abandoning him on the front pages, the plotters have all the momentum. He is completely out of time.