2026年5月16日 / 美国东部时间中午12:03 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
本周辞去英国卫生大臣职务的韦斯·斯特里廷周六宣布，将竞选接替基尔·斯塔默成为工党领袖和首相。此前该党在地方选举中遭遇惨败。
“我们需要一场由场上最优秀候选人参与的公平竞争，我将参选，”斯特里廷在伦敦的一场智库活动上表示。两天前，大曼彻斯特郡长安迪·伯纳姆宣布将竞选国会议员（MP）。
如果竞选成功，伯纳姆将能够参加工党领袖竞选——尽管目前议员们尚未正式启动这一程序，但这场选举几乎已是板上钉钉。
斯特里廷在一封措辞严厉的辞职信中质疑斯塔默的领导能力，称他不认为首相能够“带领工党参加下一次大选”，并指出工党亟需“愿景”，而目前却存在“真空”。
这封信发出之际，斯塔默政府已有其他四名大臣在地方选举失利后辞职。奈杰尔·法拉奇及其右翼民粹主义政党改革党在英格兰各地的选举中斩获颇丰。
斯特里廷的政治野心早已众所周知，他是可能挑战首相地位的多名挑战者之一。
根据工党规则，挑战者必须获得至少20%的工党议员支持，才能启动领袖选举程序。
斯塔默已誓言留任，并警告议员们，任何领袖竞选都会让政府陷入“混乱”，而此时政府本应专注于生活成本危机和中东战争等议题。
在工党在上次全国议会选举中以压倒性优势获胜后，斯塔默就任首相还不到两年。
U.K. health secretary will run for prime minister after challenging Starmer’s leadership in scathing resignation letter
May 16, 2026 / 12:03 PM EDT / CBS/AFP
Wes Streeting, who resigned as U.K. health secretary this week, announced Saturday he will run to replace Keir Starmer as Labour leader and prime minister, after the party suffered disastrous local election results.
“We need a proper contest with the best candidates on the field, and I’ll be standing,” Streeting said at a think tank event in London, two days after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham unveiled a bid to become a member of Parliament, or MP.
If successful, that would allow Burnham to run in a Labour leadership contest that now appears all but inevitable, though it is yet to be formally triggered by MPs.
Wes Streeting arrives at the Progress Conference at Convene in London, Saturday May 16, 2026. Jeff Moore/AP
Streeting wrote in a scathing resignation letter challenging Starmer’s leadership that he does not see the prime minister as being able to “lead the Labour Party into the next general election,” and noted that where the party needs “vision,” there is a “vacuum.”
His letter followed the resignations of four other members of Starmer’s government after the losses in the local elections. Nigel Farage and his right-wing populist party Reform U.K. made significant gains across England in those elections.
Streeting, whose political ambitions have long been known, is one of several challengers who could try to unseat the prime minister.
Challengers must get support from at least 20% of the Labour Party’s members of parliament to trigger a leadership election, according to the party’s rules.
Starmer has vowed to remain in office, warning lawmakers that any leadership contest would plunge the government into “chaos” at a time it should be focused on issues like the cost of living crisis and war in the Middle East.
He has been in office for just under two years after Labour won a landslide in the last national parliamentary elections.
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