Penrith and Solway MP, Markus Campbell-Savours has called for a new Labour Party leader and Prime Minister after the local elections.

The MP joined over seventy others in calling for the PM Sir Keir Starmer to stand down as leader or set out a timetable for him to do so.

Calls come after the disastrous local elections on May 7, that resulted in over 1400 Labour councillors lost their seats and control of 38 councils.

Markus Campbell-Savours said: “I have listened carefully to the Prime Minister’s speech. Sir Keir Starmer is a decent, principled and kind man.

“But his leadership is not working, and it is with genuine regret that I say so.

“His position is now untenable, and colleagues should have the courage to say publicly what many have said privately for months.

“Loyalty matters. Loyalty to him, to the Party and to each other.

“But today loyalty lies with our elected members across the country and with the 1,500 who lost their seats last week.

“It does not lie in maintaining a course that is not commanding confidence.

“What the Party needs now is leadership with a credible vision for the country, a clear sense of direction, purpose and ambition.

“Those skills exist within our ranks, and I am confident we can find a leader who has them.”

The number of MPs need to trigger a leadership contest is 80 with the number of MPs currently at around the 75 mark it is possible that a leadership contest will be triggered.

Former Deputy Leader Angela Rayner has called for the PM to meet the challenges head on.

Rayner has previously met with Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham when questions were being asked of the Prime Minster’s leadership over Lord Mandelson.

Andy Burnham made a bid to return to Westminster in the recent Groton and Denton by-election but was blocked by the parties National Executive Committee from standing.

This rules Burnham out at the moment as he is not a sitting MP.

Other potential candidates from the Cabinet are Health Secretary Wes Streeting and former leader Ed Miliband, though neither have commented that they would run and have neither have backed the PM in this recent debate.

Outside bets currently have Catherine West, who called for MPs to make a decision, and Al Carns as long shots to take over.