Most people reckon the PM is hopeless at his job and needs to be replaced.
The real reason the left want Keir Starmer to go is shocking (Image: Getty)
Keir Starmer is now the most unpopular PM in history. Just 14% of Britons say they’d vote Labour if there was an election tomorrow. That will surprise precisely nobody. He lacks basic leadership skills, a clear vision and the ability to inspire people or win them to his side.
Starmer has no human skills, no oratorical skills, and no wit, charisma or charm, although friends claim he’s pleasant enough in private. Worse, he lies. On repeat. When challenged, he’ll say whatever he thinks he can get away with. Even when caught out, he insists it’s all true and blunders on.
He was sold as a safe pair of hands, a “grown-up in the room”, yet everything falls to pieces in his hands. His promised to restore “integrity and accountability”, then gave us Lord Alli and the freebie scandal.
Even Labour backers have had enough. His personal failings annoy them as much as anyone. Yet that’s not the reason they want him out.
Starmer’ policies are horrible. We’e had the Chagos sell-out, Winter Fuel Payment fiasco, the tax raid on farmers and family firms, the failure to stop the small-boats and foot-dragging over the grooming gangs enquiry. That’s just for starters.
After two horrible budgets the economy has flatlined, while the cost of living crisis rages on and unemployment rises. Voters would boot him out tomorrow if they could. Unfortunately, they won’t get that chance for another three years or so.
Labour politicians have had enough too – and they can do something. Wes Streeting, Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham are all circling.
Outside the party, the left are in full cry. Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn have broken away to set up the laughable Your Party. The equally laughable Zack Polanski is leading the Greens towards political la-la-land.
The unions are also in revolt. Labour’s main donor Unite, led by the combustible Sharon Graham, is threatening further humiliation for Starmer by breaking ties.
They’re as fed up as the rest of us. Except there’s a crucial difference.
You and I might loathe Starmer for presenting himself as a moderate, Tony Blair-like figure to win power, then quickly revealing his true hard-left colours.
But that’s not why the left hate him. The real reason is staggering. They think Starmer’s government is failing because it isn’t left-wing enough.
Incredibly, they want Labour to tax more, spend more, borrow more. Instead of stronger border controls, they want more immigration and asylum seekers. Instead of tackling grooming gangs, they want to scrap the enquiry and bury the whole subject. It’s insane.
Voters can’t boot out Starmer, but a terrifying coalition of Labour cabinet careerists, posturing back-bench MPs, unhinged activists, militant unions, Corbynites, Islamists and even the Lib Dems are pushing to replace him with something even more extreme.
Even if the PM survives, they’ll force him even further left to save his political skin. If he falls, these lunatics could be running the country by the summer.
