Keir Starmer set to resign in JUST HOURS as PM's position 'no longer tenable'

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to set out his resignation timetable tomorrow, insiders have claimed.

The Prime Minister, who has been hunkered down at his grace-and-favour Chequers home this weekend, had insisted he would take the fight to Andy Burnham if the ex-Greater Manchester Mayor triggered a Labour leadership contest.

However, senior Labour figures now believe the Prime Minister could make a "clear statement" as early as Monday.

“He’s come up hard against the reality that the support isn’t there,” one Labour grandee told The Observer.

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“The truth is everyone knows this is no longer a tenable proposition.

There’s a sadness about it all, of course, but sometimes there’s just an inevitability in politics."

Mr Burnham, who romped to victory over Reform UK in Makerfield on Thursday, will be sworn in as an MP on Monday.

Sir Keir is expected to meet with Mr Burnham at some point next week.

Sir Keir was initially eyeing up a showdown with Mr Burnham in a Labour leadership contest.

Following the result in Makerfield, the Prime Minister insisted: "I will stand, and I've said repeatedly I'm not going to walk away."

He added: "The one thing we've got to avoid doing is plunging our party and our country into chaos by turning on each other and tearing apart our party. That has never worked."

However, Sir Keir is now widely accepted to go down in history as Labour's shortest-serving Prime Minister.

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Sir Keir's stint in No10 currently stands at just 716 days, putting him behind Gordon Brown's 1,049 days in Downing Street.

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