Deluded Starmer tells Cabinet he won't quit as pressure piles

Keir Starmer was hit with another resignation today after attempting to brush aside calls to step down at a toe-curling Cabinet meeting.Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips declared she had lost confidence in the PM's 'fight and drive' as his grip on power loosens further.The intervention came after members of his top team - said to include Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood - privately urged him to make a graceful exit in the wake of disastrous local elections.But Sir Keir effectively dared his rivals to move against him this morning, telling the weekly gathering in No10: 'The Labour Party has a process for challenging a leader and that has not been triggered.'The country expects us to get on with governing. That is what I am doing and what we must do as a Cabinet.'