Kemi Badenoch wants credit for finishing off Keir Starmer | Politics | News
Kemi Badenoch sees Sir Keir Starmer as a Prime Minister hanging by a thread and arrived at Prime Minister’s Questions with a giant pair of scissors. He gives every indication that he thinks the Prime Minister won’t last long and wants to take credit for shortening his time in power.
Ask Sir Keir why “his own MPs describe him as a caretaker prime minister?” he asked.
It is a problem for a Prime Minister if newspapers are full of news of conspiracies within his own party. The situation becomes even more uncomfortable when their inability to command the troops is discussed in parliament. Looking across the rows of Labor MPs who are in danger of losing large numbers of their seats, Ms Badenoch said “everyone can see that she has lost control of her party”.
He then focused on the frontbenchers of the Labor Party, whose job it is to govern the country, saying: “We all know this group is so busy trying to replace him that they’ve taken their eye off the ball.”
Sir Keir tried to give Ms Badenoch a taste of her own vile medicine by pointing out that former Conservatives were abandoning his party for Nigel Farage’s start-up.
Claiming “21 ex-Tory MPs have now left for Reform”, he said: “The real question is: Who’s next?”
Turning his gaze to former leadership challenger Robert Jenrick, he said the Shadow Justice Secretary was “twitching”.
Mrs. Badenoch was not impressed. After just over a year in office, he realized the potential of this weekly question session to drive the Prime Minister crazy.
Like a teacher from Hades, he put Sir Keir to the test on the failings of senior cabinet ministers. When he didn’t like the answer he shouted: “WROOOONG!”
The key difference between Miss Badenoch and Sir Keir is that she is having fun. The Prime Minister looked like a man who couldn’t wait to get out of the theater and hoped that no one in the outside world was watching the spectacle.
The Conservative Party leader described Labor as a party that “couldn’t know the truth if it punched them in the face”. “Nobody listens to anything you have to say,” Sir Keir told him.
This is the type of tactic that generations of supply teachers have used against disruptive students determined to cause mayhem on Wednesday afternoon. It rarely works in the classroom, and Miss Badenoch is counting down the days until her next confrontation in the House of Commons.
