Sky News reports:
Farage demands general election
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has demanded a general election, following Sir Keir Starmer's announcement he will resign as prime minister.
Writing on X, Farage said: "Reform demands an election, and we are ready to deliver radical change.
"If Labour thinks it can shove another professional politician into No 10, it has another thing [sic] coming."
But Farage has a point in terms of:
- It looks like the UK could end up with a PM elected by c.24000 people in Manchester.
- Starmer came in on a landslide victory at the last general election. The fact that he is resigning is not just his problem, it shows the Labour Party as a whole has lost its way.
- Burnham is short on policy ideas and Streeting's big idea is to go back into the EU. Surely the electorate deserves better than this?
So maybe Farage is right.