🔴 BREAKING: Sir Keir Starmer has resigned after less than two years in office, after the collapse of his Cabinet colleagues and MPs' support
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“HE’S A BLUBBERING MESS!”
So it’s over, he’s finally gone. The worst Prime Minister we’ve ever had and the shortest in Labour Party history.
Keir Starmer has been an abject failure and an embarrassment to us all.
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"New leader will be in place before Parliament returns in September, I will remain in post until the contest is complete"
Keir Starmer announces he will resign as UK prime minister and leader of the Labour Party
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Rachel Reeves has gone very quiet recently.
As calls grow for Keir Starmer to go, the Chancellor seems to have disappeared from public view entirely.
Now UK 20 year bond yields have surged to 5.105%, the highest level since 1998.
Confidence is draining from the economy in real time.
Where is the Chancellor?
Sources tell me that if Starmer does not agree to a departure timetable by 2PM (following the conclusion of the Cabinet meeting), Shabana Mahmood will resign, likely followed immediately by Yvette Cooper.
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer did not give his Cabinet "any chance to speak against him" this morning
He delivered pre-prepared remarks saying he won't quit before immediately moving on to discussing the Iran war and Strait of Hormuz
🇬🇧 SNAP ELECTION RUMOURS GROW AS LABOUR CIVIL WAR ESCALATES
Keir Starmer is refusing to resign, but Labour figures are now trying to force him out from within.
Right now, the priority inside Westminster appears to be replacing him before the situation spirals even further.
The country should not be dragged through months of political chaos just to protect Labour.
Call a snap election and let the British people decide who governs them.
She lied to the public about the black hole and concealed her true tax intentions.
This should be grounds enough for her resignation, let alone having lied on her CV about her professional background.
She’s a severely underqualified basket case who’s better suited to the Halifax back office.
If Starmer goes, this witch cannot be allowed to retain her position as Chancellor.
🚨'Honestly Keir, it's over.'
Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith says the government is in freefall with Sir Keir Starmer staying on as leader and the problem is nobody trusts him anymore.
'The King's Speech will be a farce.'
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Keir Starmer's greatest achievements as Prime Minister. What a star. ⭐
Lying to the WASPI women.
Taking away pensioners' winter fuel payments.
Lying to everyone about council tax not going up and £300 off our energy bills.
Mugging off farmers and veterans.
Businesses closing because they can't afford the increase in minimum wage and NI increases.
Landlords selling up because they can't afford to comply with renters' reforms.
Private schools closing because of VAT on school fees.
Trying to stop local elections and pay to offload the Chagos Islands.
Ignoring the Brexit referendum result and sneaking us back into to EU.
Employing friend of Epstein, Mandelson.
Employing the man who sold our gold off, Brown.
Employing the woman who has a strange liking for underage sex, Harman.
Employing a drunk stamp duty dodger as his deputy.
Employing a corrupt woman as Corruption Minister.
Employing a Chancellor and Business Minister who lied on their CVs.
Employs Mastermind Lammy.
Employing 'Refugees Welcome' Cooper and Mahmood.
Promising to smash the gangs and didn't.
Promising us one in one out would work, and it didn't.
Giving people on benefits the biggest pay rise of all.
Promising us Labour would be different while taking gifts galore from Lord Alli.
Blaming the far right. For everything.
Interfering with the judicial process by ordering judges to come down hard on those he perceived as far right.
Won't proscribe the IRGC as terrorists.
Recognises Palestine.
Won't ban the hate marches.
Too scared to say what a woman is.
The man's an absolute genius. He deserves a medal.🏅
Most useless PM of all time medal. 🏅
Any more I've missed?
Eighty-one of Starmer’s own MPs want him to go. The magic number.
Any decent man would have quit first thing Monday morning. But HE isn’t decent. And WE are about to see just how indecent the Labour Party can be.
You think this is chaos? You ain’t seen nuthin yet.
🚨 TalkTV just called it straight on Keir Starmer.
“He is holding the country HOSTAGE.”
“When your own MPs are sharpening knives on breakfast TV, it’s over.”
Labour is in full meltdown. Britain has had enough.
BREAKING:
1. Starmer tells cabinet he will NOT resign
2. Claims Leadership challenge has not been triggered
This is almost an open invitation for a challenge at this point. Expect it to get dirty very quickly this week.
Many Cabinet ministers looking glum entering No.10
🇬🇧 MORE CHAOTIC RUMOURS INSIDE LABOUR THIS MORNING
Fresh rumours claim Keir Starmer plans to go around the Cabinet table individually asking ministers whether he should stay or resign.
This is what the British government has become.
A Prime Minister begging his own ministers for confidence while the country watches the circus unfold in real time.
Total humiliation.
🚨Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg just called it for Keir Starmer.
“There is absolutely no hope for him.”
He says the 10am speech is simply delaying the inevitable.
Labour’s collapse is coming fast.
🚨 Andrew Neil just delivered a savage verdict on Keir Starmer.
“There’s rarely a situation so bad that it can’t be made worse with a speech by Keir Starmer. No wonder he’s the most unpopular Prime Minister in modern history.”
A veteran broadcaster calling it like it is.
Labour’s collapse continues.