{"id":64105,"date":"2026-06-22T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=64105"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:13:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T12:13:04","slug":"keir-starmer-resigns-uk-prime-minister-labour-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=64105","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer Steps Down as UK Prime Minister and Labour Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer announced his resignation as both the United Kingdom&#39;s Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party on Monday. This decision comes amidst escalating pressure following the party&#39;s disappointing performance in last month&#39;s local elections.<\/p>\n<h2>Keir Starmer resignation<\/h2>\n<p>Speaking from 10 Downing Street, his official residence, Starmer stated, &quot;I will be resigning as leader of the Labour Party. I spoke to His Majesty the King this morning to inform him of my decision.&quot; He elaborated that his resignation addresses the critical question within his party regarding whether he is the &quot;best placed&quot; individual to lead them into the upcoming general election. &quot;I have heard the answer from my parliamentary group on this question, and I accept that answer with good grace,&quot; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related topics:<\/strong> Keir Starmer, Labour Party, UK politics, Prime Minister, resignation, Downing Street<\/p>\n<p><em>DZWatch provides English-language coverage of Algeria-focused developments for international readers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation as both PM and Labour Party leader, facing pressure after poor local election outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}