Graham Stringer has joined the rallying calls from Labour MPs for Sir Keir Starmer to step down, following the Government’s catastrophic local election losses.
Speaking to GB News, the MP for Blackley and Middleton South declared the Prime Minister has “failed”, and it is time the Government had a “new leader”.
Addressing the losses in an address to the nation today, Sir Keir said Labour’s crushing results were “tough” as the party lost some “brilliant representatives”.
He said: “I take responsibility, but it’s not just about taking responsibility for the results.
“It’s about taking responsibility to explain how, as a political and electoral force, we will be better and do better in the years and months ahead.”
Speaking to GB News, Mr Stringer cast doubt over Sir Keir’s ability to continue in office.
He declared: “He’s just failed. I think he’s tried his best, and he’s put a lot of energy into being Prime Minister.
“But I think after two years as Prime Minister, in six years as leader of the Labour Party, he’s not convinced the British public.”
Labour MP Graham Stringer has called on Keir Starmer to resign following the Government’s local election losses
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Recalling his canvassing ahead of last week’s local elections, Mr Stringer admitted that he has “never experienced such hostility” in his entire parliamentary career.
The Labour MP said: “Canvassing in the local elections was not a happy experience.
“I’ve been canvassing for over half a century, and I have never experienced such hostility to a Labour leader, even unpopular Labour leaders. It was in a category of its own.”
Mr Stringer called on the Labour Government to elect a “new leader” following the election results.
Keir Starmer has addressed the nation following Labour’s major local election losses
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PAMr Stringer declared: “I think if we want to win the next election, if we want to get the country back on its feet, if we want to save the Labour Party, then we have to have a new leader.”
Questioned by host Ellie Costello on who he believes the leader should be, the Labour MP suggested there be a “debate” between those who wish to take over from Sir Keir.
He told GB News: “Well, I think it’s not just about pretty faces. We’ve gone wrong, not just because Keir can’t communicate and doesn’t have the confidence of people in this country, it’s also the policies have not been as successful as I would want them to be.
“So I think we need a debate from those people who would like to lead the Labour Party and the country, to say what they would do to turn it around.”
Mr Stringer told GB News that the Labour Government ‘needs a new leader’
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Mr Stringer was pressed by host Alex Armstrong on whether it would make the current situation “worse” if the Government was to change leader at this current time.
He responded: “Well, it will be somebody, I guess who is an MP at the present time, and they will have an understanding of it and where we’ve gone wrong.
“The Prime Minister has been saying there will be chaos if there is a change of leader, but we’ve got chaos at the moment, we’ve got uncertainty.
“So you just have to look at the markets and the electorate. They don’t believe what’s happening now is anything other than chaos. We have to stabilise that with a new leader.”