Sir Keir Starmer’s resignation is “inevitable” and the “disastrous” Prime Minister must go, Danny Kruger has declared.
Speaking to GB News, the Reform UK MP accused the Labour leader of prioritising “international human rights law over the British people”.
The Prime Minister has insisted he will not be forced from office at a tense meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party this evening, declaring: “I have won every fight I’ve ever been in.”
He said: “I fought to change the Crown Prosecution Service so it better served victims of violence against women and girls. I fought to change the Labour party to allow us to win an election again.
“People told me I couldn’t do it… We won with a landslide majority. Every fight I’ve been in, I have won.”
Delivering his verdict on Sir Keir’s position as Prime Minister, Mr Kruger told GB News: “I think it’s now inevitable that he goes. The Prime Minister depends on his authority on his own party, and that’s now short to pieces.
“There may be a stay of execution while his rivals for the crown organise themselves, but it’s clearly now a matter of when or if Keir Starmer goes.”
As Martin argued a replacement PM would take the Labour Government “more to the left”, the Reform MP agreed: “Well, I’m afraid that is more likely than not, and not necessarily with Angela Rayner, but whoever wins will only do so by appealing to the left of the Labour Party and indeed to their membership.
Danny Kruger hit out at Keir Starmer’s ‘inevitable exit’ from Parliament
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“So I think the country is in for a rocky ride now, and I’m very concerned about what the reaction of the markets and indeed of ordinary people in the UK will be.”
Issuing a stark warning for the future of the Labour Government, Mr Kruger continued: “Nigel [Farage] today at the rally we had in Birmingham was really stressing the economic situation we’re in, and not just many rich people emigrating or sending their money abroad, but lots of talented young people just voting with their feet and thinking that they need to get out.
“And I think that will accelerate if a a new Labour leader comes in. So it’s bad as it is now, but it is going to get worse.”
As Martin argued that many Britons feel that British politics is “broken” and “redundant”, Mr Kruger agreed: “I think that’s right. We in our party say that Britain is broken, we don’t think it’s irretrievably broken, but what’s fundamentally broken is our politics.
Keir Starmer addressed MPs tonight as pressure mounts on the Prime Minister to resign
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PA“The state is failing, and you see that in the two main parties and all these leadership dramas, which people rightly get so exasperated by because it’s politicians focusing on themselves, not the country. That’s because they don’t know what they’re doing.”
He stressed: “They don’t know where they’re going, they don’t have a governing idea. The great contrast with the Reform is we know what we want to do, and it’s no surprise that we have no questions about leadership. There’s clear leadership in our party, everybody knows who the boss is.
“So you need a vision and you need leadership and you need a plan, and those are the things that you see Starmer didn’t have. He came into Government with no plan, it all fell apart very fast. We’ve got to be different.”
Asked how he believes Sir Keir’s reign will be remembered, the Reform MP said: “For me, the great clue to Keir Starmer is the detail revealed in one of the biographies of him, which is that he got into politics because he was inspired by the Human Rights Act.
Mr Kruger told GB News that the Prime Minister has been ‘disastrous’
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“So he was obviously a human rights lawyer, when Tony Blair passed the Human Rights Act in 1998, Starmer thought this is marvellous, this is how we should do politics in our country. So he came into politics to do that.
“That’s what he’s been doing and we’ve seen it in its most disgraceful form in the pursuit of our veterans through the courts, in the handover the Chagos Islands, his refusal to stop the boats by doing the obvious thing of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights. He defers to international human rights law over Parliament and indeed over the British people. I’m afraid that’s what governs his ideology, and it’s totally disastrous in a Prime Minister.”
The Labour leader made clear during tonight’s PLP gathering he would not resign, telling colleagues he would not walk away from the mandate he had secured from the country.
He promised changes to his Downing Street operation that would go beyond “who sits where in No10”, conceding that relations with MPs had not been sufficiently “open” or “inclusive”.