‘PM Is Screaming In Fear' | Keir Starmer Could Be Ousted By Christmas

There are several figures on manoeuvres for the Labour leadership. Starmer is clearly on borrowed time. Shabana Mahmood, potentially Andy Burnham. Ed Miliband. Angela Rayner. Who's the most likely to succeed? I think it's Miliband, 100%. And I know people at home are going to be groaning in absolute despair. But there's a few reasons why I think he's the most likely to actually get it. Words through to Shabana Mahmood are considered by the party membership to be far too right-wing. And they're the people who have massive sway over who's actually going to be the leader. I know you might find it hard to believe, but they really do think that they are well beyond the line. Even though Shabana Mahmood's stock has increased in recent weeks? Not within the party, though. I mean, they despise her. They think that she's basically doing what Soheila Braithwaite was doing, and is baiting out fears of racism, etc. So she might be liked by people outside of the party. It's another woman of colour that believes in border control. Yeah, exactly. That's not allowed in the Labour Party. Wes Struising's never going to get it. He wants it too badly. He came out of the womb wanting to be Labour leader. People know it. They know he's been briefing. I think he'll be very easily outmanoeuvred by Number 10. So I think you can put those two to one side. I don't think it's going to be Andy Burnham, because he needs to actually win a by-election seat. And if Labour were to put through any candidate at the moment and make them wear a red rosette, they will lose. So I don't think he's going to be able to get it. I don't think it's going to be Angela Rayner, for various reasons. One, she still hasn't sorted out her tax affairs, so she still hasn't paid back her bill. That's £40,000 in stamp duty that she didn't pay. Does that mean she's broke and hasn't got the money? Quite possibly. I mean, it's a big lump sum. So it's very possible that she doesn't actually have the money to get there, which is what I've heard. Well, she spends all her money on mojitos and inflatable boats, doesn't she? So that's not easy. It sounds like my finances, but to be fair, I don't want to be a government minister. So I think that's going to be a big struggle for her. She's also upset loads of people in the party. Has she? When she was actually within government. Because she was supposed to be, you know, Red Anne. She was supposed to be, like, the left. But actually, she was getting into boat with Starmer. She was actually allying with a lot of things that he was doing. So she's lost a lot of goodwill. Who does that leave? It leaves Ed Miliband. Ed Miliband, who's considered to be doing a good job. I'm not sure I agree with that, but he is considered... But he's doing a good job for the people who just want us to have no energy whatsoever and we'll just sit around hunking trees. Those people like him. Eco-communism. He hasn't been briefly against the government in a way that the government's kind of got its antenna up and is on manoeuvres against him. He's beloved by the party membership. Because they remember the good old days of the Miller fandom and remember when Ed was leader, it was all so good. What, you mean the Ed Stone, the bacon sandwich, and they lost elections? Short memories, huh? Short memories they have. Anything's better than the current lot, I suppose. So I think it's going to end up being him and I think it will probably come much sooner than people realise. I used to think they'd wait till the May elections. Labour will take a hammering from the left and the right. Reform will just absolutely eat up so many of their northern constituencies. I think that the Greens are going to eat up their kind of posher, leafier constituencies. But I think they want to get rid of him beforehand. They cannot stand Keir Starmer and they cannot stand Rachel Reeves. Is there any chance that Starmer just basically reads the writing on the wall and throws a towel in in the spring? Well, he does look quite fed up. I mean, I have heard some reports of him basically just being almost quite depressed. Because he knows he can't get anything through. You know, he tried to go to war with his backbenchers at the beginning when he tried to do those tax cuts on the winter fuel allowance. He tried to go after the welfare bill. You mentioned Pip. Again, a very small cut. It was basically just stopping it from rising at a high rate. And he just lost completely. They were like, who rules Britain, not you, mate? And ever since then, he's just been really deflated. I think he knows how unpopular the party is. He knows about the polling. If he were to go to the polling booth tomorrow, they would lose their majority completely. They would be completely out the door. Everyone's losing their seat. Basically, everyone, all the frontbenchers loses their seat, just like the Tories did in 2024. And I think that it will get to a point where he goes, fine, you think you can do a better job than me? Go for it. Let's do a leadership election. It's not quite yet, but it might be a Christmas gift for us. I did speak to someone yesterday who said that Starmer could press the nuclear button and call a snap election. Yeah. Back me or sack me? I think that would be relatively wise from his perspective. So it won't happen then? Exactly. Well, because what it would mean is turning around to his MPs and saying, look, I know you're upset, but you're still an MP. And frankly, if you were to open this up to the public, you wouldn't be an MP anymore. Seriously, they're going to lose hundreds and hundreds of their seats. Hundreds of their new intake would be thrown out again. But do I actually think he's going to do it? No. Because I think it would be all-out war. If he comes out and says, I'm willing to press that big red button and have the threat of Nigel Farage as Prime Minister, when they've all got themselves into a fear that Farage is the second coming of a certain German Chancellor, then they won't do it. They won't do it. They won't do it indeed. Joanna in Salisbury. Hi, Mark. Starmer ought to be a clairvoyant, not a PM. Rachel Rees will make history. Well, she has, says Joanna, by tanking the economy. Good morning, Mark. I need to call Starmer out. My granddad was a toolmaker, a top toolmaker back in the day. Trust me, Starmer wouldn't have had a hard life as a child. They had pretty good wages for that time. That's Sarah in the West Country. Is Britain now a dictatorship? Yes, it is. The government's information watchdog has ruled that the public has no right to know if ministers have criminal convictions. That's from Mick. Good morning, Mark, says Bill in Cheshire. The budget. Rachel is scraping the barrel to fund more giveaways to the feckless. In her own mind's eye, that's great. But we're only in year two. What will she do in years three, four and five? There will be no growth. Borrowing costs will rocket up. We are doomed. Louise from Ipswich says, good morning, Mark. How on earth was Keir Starmer's dad struggling to pay the bills? He was a toolmaker. And his wife, Keir Starmer's mother, was a nurse. When Starmer was at school, that would have been a very decent income with a family comfortably able to buy their house. Louise from Ipswich, you're so right about that. More Starmer lies, if you ask me. Margaret in Yorkshire. Good morning, Mark and Poppy. Before the election, Starmer said everything was fully costed and accounted for. That did not work out. As for his mind's eye, he needs to see an optician. Margaret should have gone to Specsavers. The issue he's got is that when he buys new glasses, well, he doesn't pay for them himself. It's Lord Ali. Because, of course, the multimillionaire ex-lawyer, Keir Starmer, couldn't possibly afford to pay for his own suits and his own fancy glasses and tickets to Arsenal, all the rest of it. In fact, I don't want to mention Arsenal this morning. I'm feeling quite bruised.