BBC Radio star Lee Harris confessed it’s “just a matter of time” before Sir Keir Starmer is replaced as prime minister

Keir Starmer is ‘finished’, argued one GB News star (Image: Getty)

BBC Radio star Lee Harris lost it with prime minister Sir Keir Starmer after his “catastrophic” press conference in North West England yesterday (May 30), in which he mentioned Nigel Farage’s name 16 separate times. The Labour leader was accused of attacking Reform UK in a “PR disaster of biblical proportions.”

In the conference, which was broadcast live on Sky News, Starmer took questions from journalists including one BBC reporter who quizzed him: “The speed of the decline in your popularity is historically unprecedented. Isn’t this speech today an admission that you have failed and Nigel Farage understands voters better than you?”

Someone from The Guardian confronted Starmer with: “On the wider issue of the opposition you are now facing, do you think one of the problems is that Nigel Farage can approximate talking like a human being, whereas you just resort to talking points and dodging questions?” While a GB News representative said: “Nigel Farage has five MPs, you’ve got 403 – are you panicking because Reform are so far ahead in the polls?

GB News and BBC Radio guest Lee Harris weighed in (Image: GB News)

“It seems he’s living rent free in your brain. You went to a state school, your dad worked in a factory, your mum worked in the NHS, so why has a public school educated former city trader got more in common with the red wall than you have?”

Starmer battled back the questions, arguing: “I know what it means to work 10 hours a day in a factory five days a week, and I know that because that is what my dad did every single working day of his life, and that’s what I grew up with. So I don’t need lessons from Nigel Farage about the issues that matter most to working people in this country.”

His response to being accused of reducing things to talking points was slightly longer winded, with him eventually saying: “That’s the way I do politics, which is: roll up your sleeves, understand the issues, understand the challenges, run towards that challenge and make sure we fix it for working people.”

On the subject of the Jaguar Land Rover row involving Donald Trump’s imposed tariffs, he argued Farage wanted the company “to go bust”, fuming: “I challenge him to go to JLR, stand in front of the workforce and tell them that his policy for JLR is they should go bust. And I’d very much like to see the reaction.

“In relation to working people, what matters most in my view is who politicians have in their mind’s eye when they make decisions. I know precisely who I had in my mind’s eye when I took the decisions that I had to on the international stage with the US trade deal.

“I had in my mind’s eye the JLR workers that I had taken the time to go and see on a number of occasions and understand for myself the jobs they do, the skills they have and what that means for them, their families and their communities.”

But it wasn’t enough for GB News and BBC star Harris, who tweeted: “There is absolutely no other way to describe it. This press conference was absolutely catastrophic for Keir Starmer. It was a PR disaster of biblical proportions.

“He’s finished. It’s just a matter of time.”