Just a year after winning a massive 174 seat majority in the 2024 general election, it’s clear to me that Sir Keir Starmer’s days in Number 10 are numbered! Rebel MPs, disciplinary crackdowns, policy U‑turns, and dissent among his party’s core supporters tells me it’s not a case of ‘will’ he get stabbed in the back, but ‘when’.
Desperate Discipline!
This week Sir Starmer suspended four MPs – Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan‑Jordan, Chris Hinchliff and Brian Leishman for not toeing the party line on Labour’s welfare reforms, with three more MPs getting fired from their cushy trade-envoy jobs. The way I see it the PM’s on the ropes and he’s desperate to show he’s still the top dog. The thing is there were originally more than 100 rebels, and even after a face-saving gutting of the bill’s original intention, still 47 Labour MPs voted against it.
And this wasn’t the first time Sir Starmer has been forced to discipline rebel MPs on his own backbenches, having suspended seven members for voting against the Government’s two-child benefit cap. And who can forget a newly elected PM whose first major act was to freeze out 2.5 million pensioners by taking away their winter fuel allowance?
How can a politician who rode into Downing Street on such a high already be struggling to hang on to his job? The answer is simple; many of his own MPs bought into his bollocks, just like the millions of voters who were duped into voting Labour.
Policy Failures and U‑Turns!
Labour promised reforms but have since getting into power have U-turns and backtracked on many pledges. The flagship £28 billion annual green investment target has dwindled to just £4.7 billion. Promises to renationalise utilities and reform the House of Lords have quietly been shelved.
The winter fuel payments cut, announced without manifesto warning, alienated key demographics, and triggered fierce criticism from pensioner groups and within the party itself. Add the welfare reform bill debacle, and has anyone heard about Labour’s ‘digital dashboard’ of late!? And it’s not just in Parliament where people want to see the back of Starmer. Labour’s polling has plummeted from above 40% to below 20%, as Reform UK to the right, and left-wing parties making huge gains. Basically one year after Keir Starmer won by a landslide with 10 million votes the UK public are now backing ‘anyone but Labour’.
Assassins waiting in the wings!
Just like in the days of Julius Caesar there is a queue of potential new leaders sharpening their daggers and waiting in the wings for the right moment to strike.
I don’t pretend to be a Labour Party insider but, when searching for an opponent prepared to inflict a mortal injury to your career, your best bet is to consider those who are close by.
Jeremy Corbyn is doing his thing and threatening to lead a breakaway party, but we’ve been to that place before and even the Gen Zs have abandoned his crazy Marxist rubbish. But the darling of the ‘soft’ left and current deputy PM Angela Rayner is a much more realistic shout. Politicians are by design unfaithful creatures and Rayner is programmed to go for the throat if her leader shows any sign of weakness. It’s the rule of the (political) jungle!
Let’s face it – it’s going to happen!
Let’s face it; Keir Starmer is a weak, ineffectual political failure who is ripe for the taking. It’s not a case of ‘if’ he will be taken out of the game, but when, and by whom?
Personally, I don’t care who gets the keys to SW1A 2AA next. As an unelected prime minister, they will have as much of a mandate as Liz Truss! The sooner Starmer is out of office the sooner we can get Nigel moved in.
