Suella Braverman has accused Health Secretary Wes Streeting of being a “traitor” as she handed Sir Keir Starmer a bleak verdict on his future as Prime Minister.
Speaking to GB News, the ex-Home Secretary said Sir Keir “can’t survive” the rumoured plot to oust him from office, predicting the Prime Minister “won’t lead the party into the next election”.
Denying any plot to oust Sir Keir, Mr Streeting told the NHS Provider’s Conference: “The bizarre thing about some juvenile briefing overnight is that it’s people in No10 who’ve said the Prime Minister is fighting for his job.
“Now, I don’t think that’s firstly a helpful or constructive thing to say, I also don’t think it’s true. What I think he is doing is fighting to try and turn the country around from the enormous mess that we’ve inherited on so many fronts.”
Suella Braverman has branded Wes Streeting a ‘traitor’ as she handed Sir Keir Starmer a bleak verdict on Labour’s reported coup
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Delivering her verdict on the alleged plot to oust Sir Keir, Mrs Braverman told GB News: “I think he’s the Alan Carr of this series of The Traitors. Babyface, butter wouldn’t melt, everyone loves him. But underneath the exterior, he is the traitor.
“And I do actually think that Wes is on manoeuvres, he is trying to deny a plot, and this is all really more of the shambles.”
Admitting the rumoured coup has come “sooner than expected”, she added: “I’ve got to say, I didn’t think I would expect I see this so soon, but the Labour crisis right now is making the Tory psychodrama of previous years look veritably dull.”
Pushing back on the ex-Home Secretary’s remark, GB News Political Editor Christopher Hope asked: “You were part of the psychodrama, we were told you were leadership material, and you declared your standing on the Peston programme.
Mr Streeting hit out at the ‘juvenile’ briefing that there is a plot to ‘oust’ Sir Keir from office
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“Do you ever feel unfairly traduced that often the people that were trying to support the Prime Minister at the time were pinning things on you that weren’t your fault?”
Mrs Braverman responded: “This is why I do have some sympathy with Wes, because I have been on the receiving end of hostile briefings from a hostile No10, it is not very nice.
“And when you are innocent and you’re not plotting and you’re not trying to overthrow the Prime Minister, you do feel wrongly put upon.”
Delivering a bleak verdict for Sir Keir’s future as Prime Minister, the Fareham & Waterlooville MP stated: “I do think that things are going really badly for the Prime Minister. The polls are abysmal, they’re only going to continue getting worse with a break of a promise and a rise of income tax and a failure to stop illegal migration and continual woes for this government.
Mrs Braverman told GB News that it is a question of ‘not if, but when’ Sir Keir Starmer goes
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“Keir Starmer can’t recover from this crisis, and it is now a question of when, not if, he goes.”
Pressed by host Martin Daubney on whether she reckons Sir Keir can survive “past May” with the local elections, Mrs Braverman concluded: “I would be very surprised if he is leading the Labour Party into the next general election at this stage, because of the catalogue of failings in such a short space of time.
“And with massive majority, hundreds of Labour MPs who have started off loyal and obedient are now in open rebellion against this Labour Prime Minister, and there’s no sign of fixing the big systemic problems that Keir Starmer is dealing with.”
She added: “Whether it’s the breach of the big promise on income tax, Governments never recover when they break a solemn promise like that.
“And I can’t see Keir Starmer recovering from a break of that promise.”