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Britain is leaderless, rudderless and Keir Starmer has run out of road. In a sign that the end is nye the beleaguered Prime Minister spent this evening begging his own backbenchers to stick with him.

It’s fair to say that a lot of them don’t agree. Not only has the Labour leader completely lost control of his own party, while this chaos continues the country is not being properly governed.

Yet he still desperately clings on, hiding behind the mask that his departure would plunge the country into mayhem.

One by one cabinet ministers, including notable possible challengers like Angela Rayner, Wes Streeting and Shabana Mahmood, have posted their support for Starmer.

But this is just a pause in the crisis, not the end.

Downing Street knows its position is weak and the prime minister’s authority to lead his party damaged, possibly for good.

In the space of 24 hours Sir Keir has lost his two closest aides – Morgan McSweeney, Labour’s election guru and the prime minister’s chief of staff and his Blair-era director of communications Tim Allan.

And the Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has called for the prime minister to quit.

Now, more than ever, Sir Keir is isolated and completely vulnerable.

It will only take a minor puff of wind to topple him now.

Another PMQs drubbing by Kemi Badenoch might do the trick on Wednesday.

Or later this month with Labour facing an embarrassing by-election defeat in Gorton and Denton.

If those two don’t work then surely an expected pummelling in the May 7 local, Welsh and Scottish elections will persuade wannabe Labour leaders to go over the top and make a challenge.

That’s not to mention any more incendiary revelations that might be thrown up in the ongoing police and parliamentary investigations regarding Peter Mandelson, his links to Jeffrey Epstein and his appointment, by Starmer, as US Ambassador.

However long his death sentence is, it’s going to be gruelling for Starmer and even more so for the British public.