Keir Starmer won 411 seats twenty-two months ago. Seventy-eight Labour MPs are now prepared to remove him. The largest majority in a generation had no affirmative mandate to defend. Keir Starmer won 411 seats in July 2024, one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern British history. Twenty-two months later, seventy-eight Labour MPs are prepared to oust him. The threshold to trigger a formal leadership contest is eighty-one. He is three signatures away. Labour lost nearly fifteen hundred council seats in the May 7 local elections, the worst governing-party result since John Major's Conservatives in 1995. Reform UK surged from two councillors to fourteen hundred and fifty-three, taking control of fourteen councils including Essex, Sunderland, and Suffolk. Labour lost Tameside for the first time in nearly fifty years. The Greens took Lambeth and Lewisham. The damage came from every direction. The mechanism for a Labour leadership challenge is a nomination threshold, not a confidence vote.…