Prime Minister Keir Starmer, issues a statement regarding the Manchester Synagogue attack, at Downing Street on October 2, 2025 in London, England.

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Hello, this is Katie Foley writing to you from London, where Downing Street is dominating the agenda.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a crunch cabinet meeting this morning. His premiership seemingly rests on a knife-edge after a day of intrigue of the kind that British politics seems to have perfected in recent years.

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British Cabinet ministers - reportedly including Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood - have told Keir Starmer to lay out a plan to leave Number 10.…