chris mason
political editor

The prime minister has had a near-death experience politically and, for now at least, has survived.

At various points, it looked like he was nearing the end.

Had there been public accomplices in Scottish Labor leader Anas Sarwar’s desire to oust Keir Starmer, that might have been the end of it.

On Monday afternoon, there was a key tipping point where things could go in one of two directions.

If others had said that Mr Starmer should go, he might not have been able to end the day without announcing his departure.

But instead it mobilized support from different parts of the Cabinet and Labor Party.

Let’s be clear: messages from ministers expressing loyalty to the prime minister should not be news, and only become news if the opposite seems possible.

The flood of social media posts only underlined how precarious Mr Starmer’s position was. Starmer needed a political platform to support him from anywhere.

But that support did come, and he saw off his moment of greatest danger for now.

Read on for my analysis of why Labor has decided to stick with Mr Starmer for now.