{"id":99381,"date":"2026-06-22T00:43:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=99381"},"modified":"2026-06-22T00:43:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T19:43:41","slug":"report-says-uk-pm-starmer-ready-to-quit-but-source-says-he-is-still-focused-on-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/report-says-uk-pm-starmer-ready-to-quit-but-source-says-he-is-still-focused-on-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Report says UK PM Starmer ready to quit, but source says he is still focused on the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain\u2019s Observer newspaper said Prime Minister Keir Starmer was expected to resign on Monday and set out a timetable for his departure, though a government source said Starmer remained focused on getting on with the job of governing.<\/p>\n<p>The threat to Starmer\u2019s position, which has been building for months, increased sharply on Friday when his rival Andy Burnham won a seat in parliament that would allow him to launch a formal leadership challenge.<\/p>\n<p>The Observer report said Starmer was discussing the matter with his wife at his Chequers country residence before making a final decision, \u200cbut that senior \u200cLabour figures expected a clear statement on his future as \u200bearly \u200cas \u2060Monday.<\/p>\n<p>However, \u200ba government \u2060source said Starmer remained focused on his job and pointed to previous statements he has made to that effect.<\/p>\n<p>The British leader said on Friday he would fight any challenge to his leadership and urged Labour not to tear itself apart with infighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain\u2019s Observer newspaper said Prime Minister Keir Starmer was expected to resign on Monday and set out a timetable for his departure, though a government source said Starmer remained focused on getting on with the job of governing. The threat to Starmer\u2019s position, which has been building for months, increased sharply on Friday when &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99397,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99381\/revisions\/99397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}