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I want to go to the UK now and the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is hanging on by the skin of his teeth as pressure mounts for him to resign in the wake of hefty losses in those local elections last week. Here's the latest from Sky News UK. The PM kicking off cabinet by digging in, telling colleagues the last 48 hours had been destabilising for the government, that a leadership challenge had not yet been triggered and as such he and his cabinet should get on with the job of governing. But then the ministerial resignations began. First, Miata Phambule, Housing Minister, then the biggest name yet, Jess Phillips, the Safeguarding Minister, who told the PM, I know you care deeply but deeds not words are what matter. Let's cross to writer and broadcaster Esther Kraku. Esther, gee, he's digging in. He's going to barricade himself into number 10 soon, isn't he? I mean, many squatters across the UK can take notes because that's exactly what he's doing. He's squatting in 10 Downing Street. And I think the comical aspect of this is the fact that he has basically decided to close everyone off. Would you believe that the Parliamentary Committee, which is made up of sort of backbench MPs speaking for the Bruder Labour Party in Parliament, have been told that Keir Starmer's diary is unavailable for the next three months? This is a committee that's supposed to meet weekly with the Prime Minister, by the way. So he's basically told the Labour Party, many of whom owe their rights to him, that if they don't put up and deal with the fact that he's not planning on going anywhere, he will call a general election, which is basically throwing a nuclear bomb onto the Labour Party. Because at the moment, it looks like if there was a general election, reform would wipe away, basically, the Conservatives and the Labour Party in equal measure. So he's decided to say that even though thousands of Labour councillors have lost their seats, thanks to the general dissatisfaction with the party, and particularly him, and knowing the fact that his brand is toxic, he's deciding not to go anywhere. He's fending off every single Labour leadership fight, particularly with West Streeting and Andy Burdum, who he actually stopped from even getting a seat in Parliament recently, due to the Denton and Gorton by-election. So he's basically said he's not going anywhere. You either have to put up with me or watch your seat vanish into thin air, because I will call a general election. And it's quite incredible. I never thought this would happen, that he would basically hold the Labour Party hostage. Yeah, it's a hell of a threat against your own party, the party that's put you there in the first place.