Keir Starmer on the ropes – Angela Rayner to deliver a knockout blow | Personal Finance | Finance
The Prime Minister ducked and lurched in Parliament yesterday as he tried to blame everyone but himself for involvement in Peter Mandelson’s botched investigation. Real leaders take responsibility. He avoided it at every opportunity. Worse still, he tried to save his own life by blaming his subordinates. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch came out swinging. He pinned him down but couldn’t quite land the knockout blow. In fact, he would never do this. This privilege belongs to someone else.
The country is fed up with our hapless Prime Minister. He was always a manufactured politician with no fighting instinct. He also has no knowledge of languages, the English language dies on his lips. And he’s not even the smooth and proper operator we were promised. Yesterday, Reform MP Lee Anderson was thrown out of the House of Commons after claiming the Prime Minister “couldn’t lie down in bed”. Extra-parliamentary, yes, but you can see what drove him to do so.
Labor MPs are also fed up. They know he’s completely out of his depth. The only thing uniting the country right now may be disappointment with Starmer. We will definitely not be united by what happens next. Especially if it’s Angela Rayner.
While everyone is happy to sink their teeth into Starmer these days, Rayner is Marmite. Leftists embrace it. He has a compelling, tough backstory that the rest of the cabinet would kill for, and he can connect with ordinary people. After Starmer, simply sounding like a human would be an upgrade.
But there’s one thing everyone agrees on. He is a warrior. We will see another example this evening.
With impeccable timing, he prepares a speech calling for “bolder action” from Starmer’s faltering administration. This is part of the Labor Growth Group event. Times reports today.
It won’t move openly for now. Not before the May election, when Labor was trying to get a leg up. He doesn’t want to share the blame for this. He also gets stuck as questions about his tax affairs continue.
But he can see what everyone else can see. Starmer is stunned, firing from all sides and not responding. If there is, there’s nothing left in your closet. Rayner circles and picks his moment. He doesn’t want to throw wild punches, he wants to put it on the canvas. And if it makes it to number 10, the rest of us won’t know what hit us either.
