Most Labour Members Want Keir Starmer Replaced As Leader Before Next Election

Most Labour members want Keir Starmer to be replaced as party leader before the next general election, a damning new poll has found.

The Survation analysis for the LabourList website found that 53% believe a new leader should be in charge the next time voters go to the polls.

Only 31% back Starmer still being leader then, despite the party winning a landslide election victory just 15 months ago.

The grim findings for the prime minister were revealed as Labour members begin to gather in Liverpool for the party’s annual conference.

They increase the pressure on Starmer to use the event to convince his critics that he can turn around the government’s fortunes.

He will make his keynote speech on Tuesday, in which he is expected to set out his vision for the UK’s future and say he is in a “battle for the soul of the country” against Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

On Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg on BBC1, the PM insisted he needed more time to improve living standards, the NHS and national security.

He said: “I just need the space to get on and do what we need to do, to do those three things above all else, but also – in a world which is more volatile than any of us have known for a very long time – to ensure that the United Kingdom is safe and secure.

“We have got the fight of our lives ahead of us, because we’ve got to take on Reform, we’ve got to beat them.

“So now is not the time for introspection or navel-gazing. There is a fight that we are all in together and every single member of our party and our movement, actually everyone who cares about what this country is, whether they vote Labour or otherwise, it’s the fight of our lives for who we are as a country. We need to be in that fight united, not navel-gazing.”