As Sir Keir Starmer hob-nobbed with Kylie Minogue and Prince William in Brazil this week , back in Westminster his MPs were feeling increasingly regicidal.

Before jetting off to Rio and Belem deep in the Amazon for the COP30 climate summit, the Prime Minister struggled to rouse his downcast troops with a pep talk to the Parliamentary Labour Party and in so doing left behind a vacuum for his backbenchers to fill with plans for a future without him .

Talk of toppling a leader , who just 18 months ago stormed to a historic landslide in a general election, may appear unthinkable. But stubbornly bad polling and the Prime Minister’s own dire approval ratings are making MPs’ trigger fingers ever more itchy. New Feature

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