PM will face Kemi Badenoch and other MPs at final PMQs of the current parliamentary session
In his interview with Times Radio this morning, Steve Reed, the housing secretary, said the UK ambassador to Washington, Christian Turner, was wrong to suggest in a private conversation that Keir Starmer may lose his job after the May elections.
Asked about the comment, Reed said:
[Turner] was speaking to a group of school kids. I don’t know whether he meant it seriously, lightheartedly, but whatever it is, it’s not going to happen. He’s not Mystic Meg. We saw in the vote last night, our parliamentary Labour party, our MPs are fully behind our prime minister.
I don’t think people have to apologise for every single comment that they make. No.
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2026-04-29 08:38:00
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