Starmer’s Labour Suspends Critic as Premier Girds for Challenge

Keir Starmer’s governing Labour Party suspended an ardent critic in a sign the UK prime minister is preparing to face down his internal rivals ahead of a possible leadership challenge.

Karl Turner, a 54 year-old Labour Member of Parliament who’s represented the Kingston upon Hull East district of northeastern England since 2010, was informed by government chief whip Jonathan Reynolds that he was having the Labour whip suspended on Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter. Turner himself posted on X that he hadn’t been informed.