Do constituents of youngest MP agree Starmer's time is up?

Sam Carling is the Baby of the House of Commons – the UK's youngest MP.

He won his North West Cambridgeshire seat aged 22, as part of Labour's landslide victory in 2024.

But despite being part of Sir Keir Starmer's historic win, he was among more than 80 of his party's MPs to call for the prime minister to quit - or set out a timetable for his departure.

What do voters in Carling's constituency think?

Maria Banulus, 39, from Yaxley, says: "He probably should go."

"I feel like we've had too many prime ministers that actually haven't gone down with a general election - they've been outed," she adds.

"I don't actually know who the other options are, I heard Angela Rayner, but I really don't know.

"I know he's been criticised for many things that he's done wrong and things that he's had to back-track on.

"I don't know if changing someone for someone else will make any difference."

Pat Larham, 73, is a Conservative voter and believes Starmer is "Reform's best asset".

"What's right with him?" she asks.

"He comes into government, thinks he's going to change the country and what has he done? Nothing.

"They were going to change everything. They were the party for change and it's not going to happen like that."

She does not know who Labour have to take over.

"I would have said Andy Burnham, but he's a mayor - not an MP."

Millie Clipston, 19, from Whittlesey has worked as a hairdresser for about a year and says Starmer is a hot topic for her customers.

"Everyone talks about it in here," she says.

But she does not trust what politicians have to say, adding: "Everyone says stuff and then it changes the next minute."

Sue Windle, 79, also asks: "Can he leave?" And if so: "The sooner the better.

"He should never have been put in there, he's the wrong person, not strong enough, and he's just hanging on and he knows he's got to go."

She says she is not a Labour voter and will never vote for the party.

Giuseppe Pizzo, 50, a former Peterborough-based hairdresser, believes Starmer's "time is up".

"He's lost the public opinion then," he says.

"If the local politician thinks he should go, then I agree with that. And what's he done for Peterborough, Cambridgeshire anyway?"

He wants the next leader's priority to be stopping "migrants crossing the Channel".

"I think that's out of hand now. They're still continuing and it's rising."

Avese Dio, 37, lives in Hampton and says Labour's policies should be the priority, not who the leader of the party is.

"Because if they make good policies then everywhere will be good," she adds.

"It's not really about the person in power but the policies they put in place to make things better."

Jane Maxwell, 59, voted Green in the last general election.

Her message to Starmer is: "I think you should leave and let somebody else be the leader of the country."

She adds: "I don't think he's lived up to his promises and I don't think he should stay."

She would like the new leader to have "more left views". She does not want them, whoever it is, to allow Trump to use any UK airbases for his conflict with Iran.

"I think he's too close with Trump, and that I don't like at all."

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