Reform UK MP predicts that it won’t be long until the Prime Minister is forced out of Downing Street
Reform UK MP Lee Anderson (Image: GB NEWS)
Lee Anderson branded Sir Keir Starmer a “dead man walking” as he predicted he will be ousted in May. The Reform UK MP’s comments come as YouGov polling shows the Labour Government’s net popularity rating stands at minus 59.
The Prime Minister has been facing open questions over his leadership ahead of the May elections. Speaking on GB News, Mr Anderson said: “I can’t see anybody replacing him to be honest.
“At one time it was mooted about Angela Rayner replacing him. She’s sort of gone missing.
“Wes Streeting is sort of slithering about in the background, he could be ready to launch the old dagger in the back.
“I’m surprised you said he had a popularity rating of 11%. I’m surprised it’s as high as that because everywhere you go in this country, as a politician, people talk to me wherever I go, and this man is despised. I think he’s the most despised Prime Minister in history.
“I think he’s cowardly, he U-turns on everything, he bends to his backbenchers all the time just to save his own skin. He’s a dead man walking.
“I think his time is probably up after the May elections this year, but I dread to think who’s going to replace him.”
Mr Anderson’s comments come after Sir Keir earlier this week insisted he will still be in No 10 by 2027 despite discontent among some backbenchers.
The Prime Minister is facing intense speculation over his leadership (Image: PA)
There has been ongoing speculation that if May’s elections are a bloodbath for Labour it will spark a contest to replace him.
He told the BBC‘s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg: “Under the last government, we saw constant chopping and changing of leadership, of teams, it caused utter chaos, utter chaos, and it’s amongst the reasons that the Tories were booted out so effectively at the last election.
“Nobody wants to go back to that. It’s not in our national interest.”
He added: “We know from that evidence what happens if you go down that chaotic path, and I’m not going to take us back to that kind of chaos.”
Speaking from Downing Street, he added: “I will be sitting in this seat by 2027.”
