The year is ending, but the Keir Starmer premiership’s woes seem to be just beginning.
Besides fierce criticism by the opposition and a popularity level that keeps nose-diving, already unpopular British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer now has an internal rebellion in his own party.
A new bombshell report shows Labour insiders charging Starmer of having ‘no plan’ after entering Downing Street and ‘presiding over a government of drift and dysfunction.’
Keir’s tenure has been marked by a multitude of scandals ever since he won the general election victory over the Tories on July 4.
The author of the new damaging report is Jason Cowley, the long-time editor of the leftist New Statesman magazine.
Daily Mail reported:
“Now he has spoken out about what he says a cabinet member described to him as ‘drift and dysfunction’ since Labour came to power after the general election.”
Cowley quotes party higherups in scathing comparisons between ‘two-tier Keir’ Starmer’s approach to government and former Labour PM Tony Blair.
“’In 1997, [Tony Blair’s chief of cabinet] Jonathan Powell had a plan for the first 100 days of government, and then a plan for the next 100 days. But this lot had no plan.’ Cowley himself added that ‘if they did have a plan, it was incoherent and undermined by factionalism’ – with disputes between Sir Keir’s initial choice of chief of staff, ex-civil servant Sue Gray and the party’s election campaign guru Morgan McSweeney who took over her role in October this year.
A cabinet member is quoted as saying the first half-year of Sir Keir’s Labour government has been defined by ‘drift and dysfunction’.”
Starmer won a 156-seat majority only to immediately get himself and senior colleagues embroiled in ‘sleaze’ allegations.
The ‘freebies’ from Labour donor Lord Alli included designer suits and trendy glasses gifted to the PM himself.
Ministers including Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson also got into hot water for accepting handouts of tickets to US popstar Taylor Swift’s shows.
UK’s first female Chancellor Rachel Reeves alarmed the Kingdom many by excluding the majority of pensioners from being eligible for the winter fuel allowance.
“And there have been mass protests in Westminster by farmers – including TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson – over changes increasing the amount charged in inheritance tax on their estates.”
And there’s more: Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigned last month after it arose that she pleaded guilty in 2014 to fraud.
New ‘cronyism’ accusations are also lobbied at the PM. He proposed 30 new Labour peers for the House of Lords.
Cowley’s analysis predicts worse times ahead, and further surges in the support for the populists in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.
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