Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to “bulldoze” through any leadership threats after Labour has been projected to lose the next General Election.
Political commentator Andy Williams spoke to Dawn Neesom about the rumoured leadership challenges which have plagued the Prime Minister since his popularity plummeted among voters.
Now, Labour MPs are believed to be preparing to boot out the Holborn and St Pancras MP from No10 after despair over the party’s polling.
The disgruntlement is compounded by the threat that Rachel Reeves is tip-toeing towards increasing income tax despite Labour repeatedly promised to not raise key taxes, including income, VAT and National Insurance.
On Friday, Labour dropped to fourth place in the latest opinion poll for Find Out Now, forecasting the party’s worst election result in more than 100 years.
The governing party’s approval slumped to 15 per cent, trailing behind Reform UK, the Greens and the Conservative Party.
Speaking to Dawn, Mr Williams said: “There’s huge infighting within the party. This is the perennial problem. You’re not going to be able to stop the left of the Labour Party.
“Being attention seekers, wanting to to spend money infinitely, as if it’s running water.
Mr WIlliams urged the Prime Minister to ‘crack on’
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“That’s just the way they have always behaved and will continue to behave.”
Handing out some advice for the Prime Minister, Mr WIlliams said to remain “really focused on what you’re trying to achieve in the real world, under the real world constraints that Governments have”.
He told the People’s Channel: “Forget the left. They’re always going to behave like this. Crack on, bulldoze through.
“I was really irritated to see them restoring the whip to full rebel Labour MPs earlier this week who voted against welfare cuts. You know we don’t need them. Forget about them.”
On Friday, four Labour MPs have had the whip reinstated as pressure mounts on Sir Keir Starmer ahead of Rachel Reeves’s Budget on November 26.
Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, Neil Duncan-Jordan and Rachel Maskell all had the whip withdrawn in July following a revolt over Labour’s plans to slash Britain’s ballooning benefits bill.
Sir Keir cracked – and removed – the whip from the group after more than 120 MPs threatened to vote down his welfare cuts.
However, the Government was ultimately forced to back down on its proposal to cut welfare by more than £5billion.
A minister told the i that colleagues were discussing “the who and the how and the when to replace him”, while another backbencher admitted: “It’s a mix of everything. It’s the botched reshuffle. It’s all the poll ratings.”
The former human rights lawyer has been plagued with a number of scandals since taking office
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The former human rights lawyer has been plagued with a number of scandals since taking office, from Angela Rayner’s resignation to the Lord Alli freebies fiasco.
“It’s a belief among the PLP that the Prime Minister and Downing Street don’t really like them or respect them. Eventually, that feeling becomes mutual,” the MP added.
Meanwhile, the Labour leader has doubled-down on his residence up the steps of Downing Street, vowing that he intends to stay in power after “decade of national renewal”.
When asked by The Sun if he still intended to be in power after a decade, he said: “Yes, it’s 10 years of national renewal and I always said it was a decade of national renewal.
“And I made it very clear in my conference speech how serious I am about patriotic national renewal, taking our country forward.”