Will UK PM Keir Starmer announce his resignation before Wednesday?
74% of users predicted YES — the community got this one right. 46 predictions cast.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation on June 22, 2026, ending a tenure that began following Labour's landslide general election victory in July 2024. Starmer said he had consulted his ministerial colleagues about whether he remained the right person to lead the party into the next general election and had "heard the answer." The announcement came after months of mounting internal pressure driven by a series of dismal local election results in May 2026 and the rapid ascent of the far-right Reform UK party, which had peeled away large portions of Labour's traditional working-class support base in northern England.
The immediate precipitating factor was the Makerfield by-election, won decisively by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham with 55 percent of the vote — a result that cemented Burnham as the frontrunner to succeed Starmer. Starmer agreed to remain as caretaker Prime Minister until a new Labour leader is chosen, with nominations scheduled to open July 9 and close before the summer parliamentary recess on July 16. His departure will make the United Kingdom's seventh Prime Minister in a decade. A community majority of 74% correctly anticipated the resignation.