Can Keir Starmer survive challenges to his leadership? Readers discuss

Like many others, I listened to the prime minister’s speech yesterday as he fought for his political survival in the wake of Labour’s local election disaster (Metro, Tue).

I did not listen with any great expectation and I was not disappointed.

All we got from Sir Keir Starmer were the same old platitudes about how he ‘gets’ the public frustration and how he stands for ‘working people’ – whatever that expression means – and for a fairer and mo...