STARMER MAY BE OUSTED AFTER ELECTIONS – Labour MP Predicts

Sir Keir Starmer will be ousted in May if the local elections go as badly as polls predict, a Labour MP has said.

Richard Burgon, a Left-winger who was a shadow minister under Jeremy Corbyn, said it was “inevitable” that the Prime Minister would have to go if next year’s ballots were a “complete disaster” for Labour.

Dissent against Sir Keir within the parliamentary party is growing, with Labour MPs having warned the Prime Minister he is in “the last-chance saloon” over his handling of the sacking of Lord Mandelson as US ambassador and the resignation of Angela Rayner.

The party’s benefits rebels, who defeated the Prime Minister’s attempt at welfare reform, have also backed Andy Burnham in his challenge to Sir Keir’s leadership.

One MP said it was clear “this administration is coming to an end” and that Labour voters on the doorstep were calling for a new party leader. Mr Burgon was suspended in September after defying the Prime Minister over the two-child benefit cap, which he voted to scrap alongside four others. He was readmitted in February. 

Mr Burgon added: “It feels that we’re years and years into an unpopular government rather than a year into a government that has just got rid of the Conservatives.”