LIVE: Scots Labour chief Anas Sarwar ‘to urge Keir Starmer to resign’

Last month, Anas Sarwar urged Keir Starmer and senior Labour MPs to ‘stay behind their doors’ ahead of the Holyrood elections in May.

Speaking in Edinburgh, Mr Sarwar said Starmer had left voters north of the border ‘angry, frustrated and impatient’ following his time in Downing Street.

It comes as Scottish Labour see a slump in their poll ratings with SNP and Reform ahead of them coming into the vote.

Asked whether he wanted to see Starmer campaigning in Scotland, Mr Sarwar said:

I would say the best thing that Keir Starmer and the UK Labour government can do is be behind their doors and in their departments getting things right and changing our outcomes.

Earlier today Downing Street said Keir Starmer will not be resigning and will be ‘concentrating on the job in hand’

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said Starmer this morning was ‘upbeat’ and ‘confident’ as he gave an address to No 10 staff amid the fallout over the Peter Mandelson scandal.

It came as he lost another key ally in executive director of communications Tim Allan, who announced he will stand down to allow ‘a new No 10 team to be built’ after chief of staff Morgan McSweeney quit on Sunday.

And Starmer is due to face mutinous MPs later on Monday amid anger over his appointment of Mandelson as ambassador to the US despite knowing that the peer’s links with Jeffrey Epstein continued after the financier’s conviction for child sex offences.

Asked if Sir Keir was going to resign today, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: ‘No.’

Anas Sarwar and Keir Starmer pictured in Glasgow in December

Anas Sarwar will use a press conference in Glasgow to call on Keir Starmer to leave Downing Street.

He will become the most senior Labour politician to urge Starmer to quit, perhaps conscious of the task facing Scottish Labour in May’s Holyrood elections.

Last week, Sarwar said Peter Mandelson ‘should never even have been considered to be the ambassador the US,’ but backed Starmer to remain in his job.

Hello and welcome to the Daily Mail’s live coverage as Anas Sarwar is set to become the first major Labour Party figure to call on Keir Starmer to leave Downing Street.

The Scottish Labour chief is expected to make the plea for a change of leadership at an unscheduled press conference in Glasgow.

His intervention could pave the way for Cabinet ministers to weigh in on Starmer who earlier today insisted he would not be resigning in the wake of Morgan McSweeney’s departure from Downing Street.

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