Jess Phillips resigns as minister after Keir Starmer tells cabinet he is not stepping down – UK politics live

She becomes the second junior minister to step down after cabinet ministers rallied around the PM earlier on Tuesday

Starmer tells cabinet he will not quit without leadership challenge

Here are some pictures from No 10 this morning.

Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the PM, is now being interviewed on the Today programme. Nick Robinson, the presenter, is asking him if he knows whether Keir Starmer has decided how to respond to the pressure on him to resign. Jones is avoiding the question, as he did on Sky News earlier. (See 7.43am.)