Speaking to BBC Newsnight the Blue Labour group’s primary ringleader Dan Carden suggested that the local elections will be game over for Starmer. Asked if he had confidence in the PM, Carden said:
“He’ll take us into the local elections and I think that will be a moment where the public have been consulted and there’ll be results. All of us as MPs will be looking at what our voters are telling us in those results. But there is definitely a question about the future of the Labour government, the future of the Labour Party and what that vision is that we are setting out for the country.”
He blamed the Labour leadership for the government’s malaise:
“It feels right now like we’re going from crisis to crisis and that happens because there is a lack of ideological vision and strategy at the heart of government… I wish I wasn’t carrying forward this message but I think you know we have to be honest and after the local elections it will be for the PLP and the leadership to look at where next.”
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Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”