Keir Starmer was last night warned he faces a coup within days unless he steps aside for Andy Burnham.
Labour grandees, including some Cabinet ministers, told the Prime Minister that his time was up following Mr Burnham’s thumping victory in the Makerfield by-election.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander is among those understood to have told Sir Keir yesterday that he needed to set out a timetable to quit this summer.
A senior Labour source told the Daily Mail that the PM faced a showdown at Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting unless he had agreed to step down by then. ‘The challenge for the next few days is
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