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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns

Prime minister steps down after local election losses and mounting pressure from within his own party.

Melanie Bennet
Jun 22, 2026
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U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned this morning after months of mounting political pressure made his premiership untenable.

The decision follows Labour’s collapse in local elections this spring, which saw the party lose hundreds of council seats to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

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