Starmer warned he ‘will be gone’ if local elections as bad as feared

Sir Keir Starmer has been warned he “will be gone” if the May local elections turn out as bad as Labour MPs fear it will be.

The Prime Minister is being told to answer questions over his role in appointing Lord Mandelson who had a relationship with the disgrace banker and paedophile Jeffrey Epstien.

Labour MP Richard Burgon warned that Starmer “will be gone” if the local elections are as brutal as many are expecting.

Burgon told the Today programme, “Lots of MPs are looking to the elections next May.

“The opinion polls suggest it’s going to be a complete disaster unfortunately and there’ll be elections in the Scottish Parliament, elections in the Welsh Senedd, elections in London, elections right across the country and the opinion polls at the moment suggest that as it stands it’s going be a disaster.

“I think it’s inevitable if May’s elections go as people predict and the opinion polls predict then I think Starmer will be gone at that time.”

Labour MP Helen Hayes added, “If those elections don’t go well, then that will be the time to ask questions… about the nature of the leadership and whether things can continue as they are.

Graham Stringer MP warned, “He [Starmer] seems to be unable to take quick, reasoned decisions and explain them politically. He doesn’t seem to have the basic skills that most politicians have.

“He’s an example of an intelligent, skilled man, at the top of his profession, whose skills are not transferable to politics. And what happens? You get a government fraying at the edges.

“I have had a lot of conversations with MPs. You don’t start a conversation by saying, isn’t Keir poor, or isn’t he making mistakes?

“It is given that he’s doing poorly at the job. He’s supping in the last-chance saloon now. He needs to take control of key critical issues. He seems to stand back and leave it up to other people.”