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Labour insiders tell the Daily Mail that the UK’s “lame-duck leader” was visited by senior ministers last night, who told him that “his time is up”. According to the Guardian – alongside Shabana Mahmood – they included the Foreign Secretary, Yvette Cooper. The Deputy Prime <inister, David Lammy, and the Defence Secretary, John Healey, are also said to have urged Sir Keir to take a “responsible, dignified and orderly” approach to what might follow. The paper says several other ministers told him to fight on. But a government source tells the i Paper that the number of loyalists in the cabinet is shrinking. The Daily Telegraph says the ministerial interventions are “likely to be a fatal blow” to the prime minister. In its sketch, the paper says he “appears to be destined to go with a civilised whimper, not a bang”.
