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UK: PM Keir Starmer under pressure to reseign

May 17, 2026
Starmer has vowed to fight on despite being widely unpopular after a series of setbacks, policy U-turns and questions over his judgment for appointing a friend of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as U.S. ambassador. The government is facing weeks of chaos after he rejected calls to resign following the party’s disastrous results in the May 7 local and regional U.K. elections, in which Nigel Farage's anti-immigrant Reform UK made huge gains.
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