Keir Starmer: After Wes Streeting resigns, who are the contenders to oust British PM?

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has the challenge he dared his mutinous party to produce, setting up a potential clash over the future of the United Kingdom and its ruling center-left Labour Party.

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer looks set to face the challenge he dared his mutinous party to produce.

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His health secretary, Wes Streeting, resigned Thursday, setting up a potential clash over the future of the United Kingdom and its ruling center-left Labour Party.

The prime minister is facing a rebellion from his own members of Parliament, triggered by losses during midterms-style local and regional elections last week, on top of a series of humiliating scandals that forced Starmer to sack several of his key allies.