Keir Starmer could possibly be ‘gone this week’ after handle to the nation cancelled
It has been a very rough few months for the Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and it could be over by the end of this week, if political predictions are anything to go by
Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be out of a job “this week,” it has been claimed. From the Peter Mandelson saga, to the fact that the majority of the British public no longer back him, it seems as though the PM’s days are numbered.
Last night, after aide Morgan McSweeney quit his role, it was announced that he was going to speak to the nation later today, but just one hour later that was cancelled.
It was later revealed that he would, in fact, not appear in public AT ALL today, before BBC’s Henry Zeffman stated that he would actually be holding two private audiences with Labour MPs and Downing Street staff.
He said: “I’m told the parliamentary Labour party can expect to hear an argument that Starmer was also making privately to a group of MPs at Chequers on Thursday, where he said he was ‘as angry and frustrated as you are’ because ‘all of us came into politics to make a difference to people’s lives’; and that Mandelson’s behaviour is ‘corrosive’ to politics and the idea it can make a difference.”
And the final nail in the coffin could come by way of political commentator Andrew Marr – who is somewhat of a politics Nostradamus.
He correctly predicted that Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss would all go days before it happened . . . and he has now gone public by making the same prediction for Starmer, claiming that “he’s feeling in a mercurial mood, and you can never tell what someone in the mood is going to do.”
He added: “If he decides to dig in a carry on, it’s going to be an utterly miserable experience for him, and he must be thinking that there has to be a way out”.
Starmer is actually now just 1/4 to be sent packing by the end of 2026, with Angela Rayner’s odds of replacing him being slashed once again by the bookies.
Rayner leapfrogged Wes Streeting over the last week, and now heads the betting by some distance at 2/1, with Streeting 9/2 and every other name 6/1 or bigger as things stand – according to Ladbrokes.
Alex Apati of Ladbrokes said: “Keir Starmer’s Number 10 hopes have been dealt yet another crushing blow, with the PM’s odds of being replaced this year now at record lows… and punters are growing convinced Angela Rayner will be the one to replace him.”
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