Keir Starmer announces his resignation as U.K. Prime Minister

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned on Monday, paving the way for Britain to have its seventh prime minister in just over a decade. 

Andy Burnham, who won a special parliamentary election last week, is the front-runner to replace Starmer as leader of the governing center-left Labour Party. Starmer won a landslide victory at a general election in 2024, but a series of missteps badly damaged his



credibility.

He’ll remain in the prime ministerial residence at 10 Downing Street until party members vote on a new leader in the next few weeks. Starmer made the announcement after facing growing pressure to hand over to a new leader who can try and revive the government’s flagging fortunes. 

He has been in office since leading Labour to a landslide election victory in July 2024. In those two years his popularity and that of the party have plummeted.