Pressure mounts on Starmer to resign – media

Up to 200 Labour MPs are reportedly prepared to back Andy Burnham as the next British prime minister

Published 20 Jun, 2026 01:12 |

(It seems the City of London are bound and determined to keep their favorite retard in the Prime Ministers roll, he should have been gone many months ago!)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure from Labour MPs, party heavyweights and even cabinet ministers to step down as early as this weekend, the Guardian has reported, citing lawmakers and government sources.

Calls for Starmer’s resignation have grown since Labour lost nearly 1,500 seats in local elections in May. The pressure reportedly intensified after former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham won Thursday’s Makerfield by-election, a result seen by many in the party as a rallying point.

According to the Guardian, up to 200 Labour MPs – nearly half the party’s Commons contingent – would back Burnham if he launched a leadership challenge. The paper cited a cabinet source as saying some ministers are preparing to urge Starmer not to contest any leadership race.

“I think everyone thinks it is over andeveryone wants it to be a dignified, orderly exit,” the source said. Senior Labour figures reportedly warned thatStarmer could face intervention from his own cabinet next weekif he refuses to resign or agree to a transition.

MPs told the newspaper ministers would try to persuade the prime minister to step aside over the coming days,adding that “almost everyone agrees” he should “do the right thing this weekend.”

In his victory speech, Burnham described the by-election as Labour’s “final chance” to build “a new politics,” warning there would be no second opportunity.

Starmer, however, insisted on Friday that he would contest any leadership challenge. “If there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then, yes, I will run,” he told reporters in London, arguing that a challenge would “plunge us into chaos.”

The prime minister’s popularity has slumped amid the cost-of-living crisis and fallout from the UK rape gangs scandal. A mid-June YouGov pollput his approval rating at 18%, with 74% of Britons viewing his premiership negatively.

An Ipsos survey published this week foundStarmer’s favorability rating at 20%, with 58% holding an unfavorable view.Burnham, whom Ipsos described as Labour’s most popular politician among both party supporters and the wider public,recorded a 26% favorability rating, while 33% viewed him negatively. (Burnham doesn’t seem very popular either, don’t they have a minister that can get along with America, apparently most of them hate America. I think there are very few ministers that can do a good job and work with the U.S. literally they seemingly can’t even run their own government.)

https://www.rt.com/news/641883-uk-starmer-pressure-resign/

Zelensky stripped of Poland’s top honor over Nazi tribute

Karol Nawrocki says Kiev crossed a red line by naming a military unit after a group implicated in the wartime massacres of Poles and Jews

Published 19 Jun, 2026 20:38

Polish President Karol Nawrocki has stripped Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky of Poland’s highest state honor, the Order of the White Eagle, after Kiev named a military unit after a nationalist group implicated in the wartime massacres of Poles and Jews.

Nawrocki announced the decision in a video statement on X on Friday,saying that “historical truth is not and can never be a bargaining chip” and that “the memory of the victims is the moral duty of the Polish state.”

The move follows weeks of growing tensions between Warsaw and Kiev after Zelensky signed a decree in late May granting the honorary title “Heroes of the UPA” to the Special Operations Center North. The designation refers to theUkrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the armed wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists(OUN). Zelensky said the measure was intended to revive the “historic traditions of the national army.”

Nawrocki said the decision crossed a red line,noting that for “the vast majority of Polish society,” the UPA remains synonymous with atrocities committed against Polish people during World War II.Poland officially recognizes the actions of the OUN and UPA as genocide.

Ivan Katchanovski

@I_Katchanovski

Wow! President of Poland Karol Nawrocki strips Zelensky of Order of White Eagle for naming Ukrainian Special Forced unit "Heroes of UPA."UPA perpetrated mass murder of Poles, Jews & Ukrainians. Bandera OUN organized UPA from police during Nazi occupation

“Facts are not subject to negotiation,” Nawrocki said, adding that they do not change with political expediency.

“The facts are that at least 100,000 Polish citizens were murdered by the UPA… only because they were Poles or Jews or other minorities,” he stated.

The Polish leader argued thatnaming a Ukrainian military unit after the UPA “has a meaning that goes far beyond the internal affairs of Ukraine” and describedKiev’s glorification of the group as “insulting, incomprehensible and deeply disappointing.”

The decision has drawn support from prominent Polish political figures. Former Prime Minister Leszek Miller called Zelensky’sdecree “a spit in the face of Poles,” while former President Lech Walesa said it insulted “all murdered” Poles by honoring “UPA bandits.”

(Nawrocki gave Zelensky 3 weeks to give an apology and the crack fiend never responded. This may be the destruction of the deal with Kiev, perhaps with the EU. If Zelensky is considering the Nazi’s in Ukraine are more important, I think other countries should consider their support for Ukraine.)

https://x.com/I_Katchanovski/status/2068035257295569264

>>24738914. He’s going thru the whole history book. Zelensky and Ukraine has show how much their really care for the EU nations that still support them. Shafting Poland was the last thing they should have done. I hope the boomerang comes around and reveals the truth of this whole lie and war. My grandmother was Polish I can tell you they are truly loving people and theylove the families beyond all things, But don’t fucking piss them off==

‘Italy never begs’: Meloni blasts Trump over ‘fabricated’ photo claim

Rome has canceled a planned visit to the US by its foreign minister amid a row with Washington

Published 19 Jun, 2026 15:27 |

Italian Prime Minister GiorgiaMeloni has accused Donald Trump of fabricating a story about herafter the US president claimed she had “begged” him for a photo during this week’s G7 summit in France.

According to a dubbed Italian-language version of a phone interview released by broadcaster La7 on Friday, Trump suggested that Meloni was desperate to pose with him during the gathering in Evian and that he only agreed “out of pity.”

The remarks triggered a sharp response from Meloni,who dismissed Trump’s account as “completely fabricated.”

“I am frankly astonished. I don’t understand why the president of the United States behaves this way with his allies,” Meloni said in a video statement posted on X on Friday. “I and Italy never beg.”

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani also took to X to announce thathe was canceling a planned trip to the USscheduled for June 21-22.

“The serious and offensive words of President Trump towards Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni offend all of Italy,” the diplomat wrote.

Meloni was long regarded as one of Trump’s closest alliesamong European leaders and as a bridge between Washington and Brussels. She was the only European head of government to attend Trump’s inauguration in 2025. Relations have deteriorated in recent months, however, amid disagreements over Iran and Meloni’s defense of Pope Leo XIV after Trump attacked the pontiff over his criticism of the Iran war.

The public clash came just days after the two leaders appeared to patch up months of disagreements on the sidelines of the G7 summit.

According to Euronews, European Council President Antonio Costa joked during aconversation with the pair that Trump and Meloni were “friends again.”

“We have always been friends,”Meloni replied. “I was abandoned,”. Trump responded. “No, you were not,” Meloni said.

The anecdote about the Italian prime minister came as Trump launched a broadercritique of EU policiesduring his conversation with La7.

“The Europeans have gotten everything wrong on energy and immigration,” he told La7, calling Europe’s immigration policy “a disaster” and its renewable-energy agenda a failure. He argued that unless these issues are addressed, “Europe will probably never be the same again.”

https://www.rt.com/news/641842-meloni-calls-out-trump-fabrication/