British Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted Friday he was “not going to walk away” from the job with his Labour Party on course to be badly beaten in local and regional elections.
Control of 136 local authorites in England, as well as the devolved parliaments in Scotland and Wales, were up for grabs Thursday. While many commentators had expected Labour to suffer heavy defeats amid public discontent with the economy, immigration and Starmer himself, partial results indicated the party was on track to take worse losses than even the most pessimistic predictions suggested.
“The voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved,” Starmer said. “I was elected to meet those challenges, and I’m not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.”
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