Danny Kruger: Starmer only has ‘a stay of execution’

REFORM UK MP Danny Kruger has said he thinks it is “inevitable” that Sir Keir Starmer will go.

Speaking on GB News Danny Kruger said: “I think it’s now inevitable. The Prime Minister depends for his authority on his own party, and that’s now shot to pieces. There may be a stay of execution while his rivals for the for the Crown organise themselves, but it’s clearly now a matter of when or if Keir Starmer goes.

“I’m afraid that is more likely than not, not necessarily Angela Rayner, but whoever wins will only do so by appealing to the left of the Labour Party and indeed to their membership.

“So I think the country is in for a rocky ride now, and I’m very concerned about what the reaction of the markets and indeed of ordinary people in the UK will be.

“I mean, Nigel today at the rally we had in Birmingham was really stressing the economic situation we’re in. And not just many rich people emigrating or sending their money abroad, but lots of talented young people just voting with their feet and thinking that they need to get out.

“And I think that will accelerate if, if a new Labour leader comes in. So it’s bad as it is now, it is going to get worse.

“We in our party say that Britain is broken. We don’t think it’s irretrievably broken, what’s fundamentally broken is our politics. The state is failing, and you see that in the two main parties.

“And all these leadership dramas which people rightly get so exasperated by, because it’s politicians focusing on themselves, not the country, that’s because they don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know where they’re going. They don’t have a governing idea.

“The great contrast with the Reform is we know what we want to do, and it’s no surprise that we have no questions about leadership. I mean, there’s clear leadership in our party. Everybody knows who the boss is. He’s been saying the same thing for 20 years and he’s been proved right.

“So you need a vision, and you need leadership, and you need a plan. And those are the things that you see, Starmer didn’t have it. He came into government with no plan. It all fell apart very fast. That’s what happened to the Tories. We’ve got to be different.

“For me, the great clue to Keir Starmer is the detail revealed in one of the biographies of him, which is that he got into politics because he was inspired by the Human Rights Act. So he was a lawyer, obviously human rights lawyer.

“When Tony Blair passed the Human Rights Act in 1998 Starmer thought, this is marvellous. This is how we should do politics in our country. We should outsource decision making to the courts of international law, and I want to be part of that. I want to help make these kind of laws.

“So he came into politics to do that. That’s what he’s been doing, and we’ve seen it in its most disgraceful form, in the pursuit of our veterans through the courts, in the handover the Chagos islands, his refusal to stop the boats by doing the obvious thing of leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

“He defers to international human rights law over Parliament and indeed over the British people. I’m afraid that’s what governs, that’s his ideology, and it’s totally disastrous in a prime minister.”