{"id":144517,"date":"2026-06-22T09:02:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:02:48","slug":"uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement outside 10 Downing Street, he said every decision he has made in office has been about \u201cputting the country I love first\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer thanked his \u201cfantastic wife, Vic\u201d, describing her as a \u201crock\u201d. He also says he wants to be the \u201cbest dad I can to my beautiful children, who are my pride and joy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He further said he will do everything he can to ensure an orderly handover of power and will give his successor his full support.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Burnham, who could replace the PM, will be sworn in as MP for Makerfield, after winning the by-election last week<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns\/\">UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigns<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party. In a statement outside 10 Downing Street, he said every decision he has made in office has been about \u201cputting the country I love first\u201d. Starmer thanked his \u201cfantastic wife, Vic\u201d, describing her as a \u201crock\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}