PM’s nightmare on Downing St
RAGING voters gave Labour an almighty kick in the ballots at the local elections because they were sick of a Government failing to deliver on change.
The response of Sir Keir Starmer has been to antagonise the public — and his own party — even further.
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The PM professed to be offering ‘hope’ in his latest ‘reset’ – instead the address left his grip on Downing Street looking increasingly hopeless Credit: Getty
Sir Keir Starmer’s new appointments, Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, above, already feel like a bad dream Credit: Steve Back
Bringing back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman — very much ghosts of Labour past — was such a bizarre move as to already feel like a bad dream.
Next up came the Prime Minister’s deluded vow to serve for TEN YEARS.
Then, yesterday, he offered up the 30th “reset” speech of his Premiership.
The PM professed to be offering “hope”. Instead his address left his grip on Downing Street looking increasingly hopeless.
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Labour suffered a massive rejection at the ballot box last Thursday because its giant welfare spending makes the Government look like it is on the side of skivers not strivers.
Yet there was no mention of cutting the welfare bill or that other huge concern of voters — illegal immigration.
Starmer promised to spend huge sums of taxpayer cash on British Steel.
But he didn’t do anything about Ed Miliband’s mad Net Zero policy — which is one of the main reasons the steel works is going bust in the first place.
Even worse was Starmer’s repeated claim of wanting closer ties with Europe, while insisting he wasn’t (yet) betraying his own Brexit red-lines.
Voters despair of being repeatedly taken for mugs by dishonest politicians.
Starmer’s plan may stop short of re-joining the customs union or single market.
But, by agreeing to be an EU rule-taker, it will have much the same impact on our ability to do independent trade deals.
The Starmer fan club which had been invited to the speech clapped away.
The response of Labour MPs was brutal, however — with more than 70 now calling upon him to go.
Ominously for Starmer, it includes ministerial aides with links to Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
Meanwhile, Angela Rayner renewed demands for fellow die-hard socialist Andy Burnham to be allowed to stand as an MP — presumably so they can form a so-called “soft left” dream ticket.
Together, they would inflict on the country MORE welfare, MORE spending and MORE borrowing.
The money markets would hate it — increasing the risk of a full-blown economic crisis.
But it seems Labour MPs arent too bothered about what’s going on in the real world. They just want the PM out.
Starmer’s beloved Arsenal may be on the brink of the Premiership.
But his own looks to be slipping away . . . with no VAR to save the day.
