{"id":37718,"date":"2026-06-22T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37718"},"modified":"2026-06-22T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:32:08","slug":"uk-prime-minister-announces-resignation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/uk-prime-minister-announces-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister announces resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"uSg02\">\n<div class=\"DgV2h lAKmW\">\n<div class=\"x9jfA\">\n<div class=\"body-100\">\n<div class=\"ze1hM d9vCk\">\n<div id=\"avatar-r3j8__badge\" class=\"fui-PresenceBadge r832ydo fui-Avatar__badge ___9t1i3p0 f14k8a89 f1euv43f f1yab3r1 f1e31b4d\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"away\">\u200bUnited Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will resign but remain in place as Prime Minister until a new Labour leader has been selected.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-test-id=\"mailMessageBodyContainer\">\n<div class=\"XbIp4 jmmB7 customScrollBar GNqVo allowTextSelection\">\n<div id=\"UniqueMessageBody_13\" class=\"OuGoX BIZfh\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"document\" aria-label=\"Message body\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"false\" data-fui-focus-visible=\"\">\n<div class=\"rps_8878\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Starmer&#8217;s departure will pave the way for Britain&#8217;s seventh leader in a decade.<\/p>\n<p>The threat to Starmer has been building for months, but it increased sharply when Andy Burnham decisively won a parliamentary election to return to Westminster.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Starmer&#8217;s departure comes less than two years after he won a landslide election victory that promised to end Britain&#8217;s chaotic politics.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37720,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-37718","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37723,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37718\/revisions\/37723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}