{"id":776,"date":"2026-05-13T05:39:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2026-05-13T05:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T05:39:40","slug":"labour-supporting-unions-predict-starmer-will-not-lead-party-into-next-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Labour-supporting unions predict Starmer will not lead party into next election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Leaked draft statement says party \u2018cannot continue on its current path\u2019 under PM<\/p>\n<p>Keir Starmer will not lead his party into the next general election, Labour-supporting unions have predicted, in an intervention that threatens to further destabilise the prime minister after a damaging few days.<\/p>\n<p>The 11 Labour-affiliated unions \u2013 which include Unite, Unison and the GMB \u2013 are expected to issue a joint statement on Wednesday saying \u201cat some stage\u201d the party will have to put a plan in place to elect a new leader.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/may\/13\/labour-unions-keir-starmer-leader-election\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Leaked draft statement says party \u2018cannot continue on its current path\u2019 under PM Keir Starmer will not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}