UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will resign and remain in place as prime minister until a new Labour leader has been selected.
Starmer’s departure will pave the way for a new British leader.
The threat to Starmer has been building for months, but it increased sharply when Andy Burnham decisively won a parliamentary election to return to Westminster.
Starmer’s departure comes less than two years after he won a landslide election victory that promised to end Britain’s chaotic politics.
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