{"id":262333,"date":"2026-05-12T18:57:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T14:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=262333"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:01:59","slug":"3-british-ministers-resign-after-starmer-says-he-wont-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/262333\/","title":{"rendered":"3 British ministers resign after Starmer says he won\u2019t step down"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jess Phillips has resigned from her post as the British safeguarding minister, telling PM Keir Starmer that actions matter, not words, the BBC<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, two other ministers also resigned. BBC sources say further ministerial resignations are expected.<\/p>\n

The resignations come after a major defeat for Starmer’s Labour Party in local elections. More than 80 Labour MPs reportedly called on Starmer to resign immediately or set a timetable for stepping down.<\/p>\n

In response, Starmer said he would not resign and would continue to govern the country.<\/p>\n

After the recent defeat of the Labour Party led by Starmer in local elections, more than 80 Labour MPs called on him to resign immediately or set a timetable for his resignation. In response to the calls, Starmer refused to resign, saying he would “get on with governing.”<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jess Phillips has resigned from her post as the British safeguarding minister, telling PM Keir Starmer that actions matter, not words, the BBC reports. Earlier in the day, two other ministers also resigned. BBC sources say further ministerial resignations are expected. The resignations come after a major defeat for Starmer’s Labour Party in local elections. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":261953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262334,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262333\/revisions\/262334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}