A GB News guest has made a stinging prediction for Keir Starmer on the anniversary of his first year as Prime Minister. Charlie Rowley has said Keir Starmer’s collapse in authority could trigger a Labour coup, thus replacing him way ahead of the next election. After a year in office, Starmer’s Labour Government is seemingly in rough waters, and the last 12 months have been anything but uneventful. Last summer, Starmer won power with the largest majority in a quarter of a century. During his first speech as Prime Minister, he promised change, national renewal and “a return to the politics of public service”.
He now faces a welfare rebellion in his own party and a huge drop in approval ratings for him and Labour. On GB News, Charlie predicted: “I genuinely think he will leave… I think he will be forced out.”
His brutal comment comes after he was quizzed by Ellie Costello, who asked him whether Sir Keir Starmer will stay as Prime Minister and lead us into the next general election.
Charlie said: “Stranger things have happened. But if you’re going to ask someone that – is Sir Keir Starmer going to be here in four years doing a general election – you’d be mad. The way things are going, just a year in – I genuinely think he will leave. I think he will be forced out.”
One person in the comments on X said: “He should be forced out. We need a PM who will put the UK first and fight for our country.” A second also typed: “He needs to go so I’d be happy about that. Trouble is, who replaces him? It will be no one better, probably worse.”
It also comes after Rachel Reeves’ future is uncertain after her tears in the Commons prompted the biggest jump in Britain’s borrowing costs since Liz Truss’s days.
Yesterday, Piers Pottinger delivered a scathing verdict on Sir Keir Starmer and claimed that markets are now spooked by Reeves’ future, and her emotional breakdown may have sealed it.
Piers also branded the prime minister’s 10-year NHS plan a smokescreen for the Labour Party’s deeper dysfunction. He said: “This is a government in crisis… Starmer’s not in control of his government, let alone the country!”
Speaking on the 10-year NHS plan, Piers said: “We’ve seen it all before. The endless plans of revamping the service, they’ve tried this idea of moving into communities before. Some of the ideas about prevention are quite frankly ludicrous.”