Labour MPs have put Starmer on notice after election battering. Can he turn it around?

Without a clear contender, ready to go, the prospect of forcing Starmer to lay out a timetable now for leaving No 10 would, these allies say, look crackers to already-fed-up voters. They feel it would send the message: “Dear country, we can’t make a decision, so we want a bit more time ’til we do.”