Sir Keir Starmer is fighting to save his increasingly threatened premiership as he faces mounting calls to resign over a bruising set of local elections. The prime minister said he took responsibility for the results, which saw the Labour Party lose almost 1,500 councillor seats , but insisted he would not walk away. He has faced relentless criticism of his leadership since he took office in July 2024, compounded by a string of U-turns and, more recently, the impact of the Peter Mandelson security vetting scandal . The elections were widely touted as judgement day for the prime minister, and he was hit by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK snatching councils, some of which had been Labour for generations, in northern England, while Zack Polanski’s Green Party lured voters away from him in former urban strongholds, including taking control of some London authorities.…