Starmer clings on amid Labour deadlock - The Latest

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  This is The Guardian.

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  If Labour mess this up, then the chances are we have a Nigel Farage government.

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  I know that people are frustrated, and some people frustrated with me.

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  Keir Starmer promised a gesture, but it wasn't a holiday to the Maldives.

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  It was like a £3.99 bunch of roses from the garage down the road.

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  For a lot of Labour and peace, something needs to change.

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  The question is what and when.

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  This kind of whole game theory that a lot of what you do depends on what other people do,

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  and it 's very, very hard to predict, very fast moving.

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  We're still in this deadlock, really.

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  Keir Starmer is feisting for his political survival as a make-or-break speech fails to calm mutinous MPs

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  and calls grow for him to go by September.

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  From The Guardian's Today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Lucy Hoff.

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  Well, I'm joined by Peter Walker, our senior political correspondent.

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  Thanks for dialing in from Westminster, Peter,

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  on a very dramatic and fast-moving day and a very dramatic weekend in the wake of.

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  I mean, dramatic today up to a point, as much as Keir Starmer manages drama, but yes.

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  Yes, yes, that's a fair point.

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  But nonetheless, Labour sort of mopping up the catastrophe of the loss of nearly 1,500

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  seats last week in the local elections.

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