India, June 22 -- Keir Starmer resigned as British prime minister on Monday, and within hours Reform UK leader Nigel Farage demanded a general election. Farage said he had "had enough of waiting around" and that Britain needed "real change, not another washed-up has-been shoved into place by the uniparty".

Farage cannot force that election - under British law, Labour need not go to the polls until 2029 - but his response sharpened the central question facing Starmer's likely successor, former Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham. That is, whether a new Labour leader can blunt the rise of a right-wing party that overtook Labour in a YouGov poll of national voting intentions in February 2025 and has led ever since.

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