Hypocrite Starmer Under FIRE | 'Couldn't Govern His WAY OUT Of A Paper Bag'

Ajouté : 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]I'm going to play the clip again before I go to Alex Burghart from the Tory party. This is what Starmer said 4 years ago about Boris bloody Johnson. Have a watch.

[00:00:11]None of this nonsense about clinging on for a few months. He's inflicted lies, fraud, and chaos in the country. And, you know, we are stuck with a function with a government which isn't functioning in the middle of a cost of living crisis. And the change we need is not a change at the top of the Tory party. It's much more fundamental than that. We need a change of government and a fresh start for Britain. His own party have finally concluded that he's unfit to be Prime Minister. They can't now inflicting on the country for the next few months. It's obvious he's unfit to be Prime Minister. That's been blindingly obvious for a very, very long time. My late mom used to have a phrase, pot and kettle. Never Never [clears throat] has that been more apt, has it, Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Good morning, my friend. Unbelievable clip from 4 years ago.

[00:01:06]Yeah, isn't it? I mean, just the most extraordinary hypocrisy. And I think I think what we've seen is that Keir Starmer has been exposed for what he actually is. And that's somebody who is not fit to be Prime Minister, somebody of very inconsistent values, and somebody who couldn't govern his way out of a paper bag. And now he's Now, yeah, the truth and reality have come come into bite him very, very hard. To the point where it's just it's very bad for the country now, Jeremy. I mean, you'll have seen that the cost of borrowing's going up. That's going to make That's going to mean that more of our tax money is going to go to pay the interest on the UK's debt. We It's going to be bad for the economy. You're going to see people lose their jobs as a result of this. The uncertainty is very, very bad.

[00:01:53]So, you know, in In words of Macbeth, you know, if it's were done to a better it were done quickly. I think the party needs to get on with this and sort it out.

[00:02:03]>> Completely agree and I'd love um the Tory take on yesterday. I mean, we were on resignation watch with a camera on 10 Downing Street, the comings and goings and the the the the just the the whole shenanigans. And you're quite right, as Dan Hodges says in the Mail today, we're in the middle of an economic and international crisis. And for a party that And don't get me wrong, I thought they were thoroughly justified in talking about cronyism and lack of seeing it through and putting yourself in front of the country at the end of your party's reign. And you would agree that at the end it all went hopelessly wrong. But I cannot in any way think that any of us would have imagined, Alex, that a mere 22 months later this lot have conspired to make it even worse. I mean, they are they're all running around. Have you heard the theory that this is all down to Mahmood? Have you heard that story this morning, yeah?

[00:02:55]Yeah, I mean, there's so this is the fog of war. There's so many stories going around. But you're right, Jeremy. I I thought that they would make a total pig's breakfast of it, but I didn't think it would fall apart so fast. And they they sort of fell over almost the moment they walked into Downing Street with, you remember, the Lord Ali scandal and then the disastrous budget and so on and so on and so on. And what what we've seen actually over the past few days is the kind of massive collapse in in politics in this country. As you massive country uh problems the country's facing, government can't deal with it.

[00:03:28]But also, you got, you know, Nigel Farage uh hiding away from the media because somebody put 5 million quid in his private bank account. You got Zack Polanski from the Greens, uh you know, it turns out he didn't pay his council tax and he's living in some, you know, massive London mansion now. And the only person who is actually, you know, uh pointing out exactly how wrong this government is going is Kemi Badenoch in the Conservatives. He's, yeah, to be fair to Keir he had detailed absolutely forensic opposition work is what's exposed that all the disasters that the the Labour Party have have brought to brought forward. So, it's why that you have got the King's Speech today. Keir has put forward an alternative King's Speech which would help us get down the cost of welfare, help us get down the cost of energy, take us out of the ECHR, make sure we can control our borders, make sure that we can reserve our public services for local people, uh make sure we can protect our veterans. All of this. This is the agenda that country needs. Instead, what you're going to see is this big Labour civil war where the Prime Minister hold up in his bunker in number 10. Uh and uh you know, uh people sending uh yes, getting getting Labour backbenchers to sign letters for or against. And yeah, they just need to sort this out. Uh just just a few quick questions, my friend. Great to have you on. What do you think of the I mean, apparently there's a showdown this morning. Uh Wes Streeting has wanted to be Prime Minister since he was three, apparently, and has been plotting since that point. There's a showdown between him and Streeting and Starmer before the King's Speech.

[00:04:56]They weren't allowed to show their hands yesterday, apparently. I mean, I'm just sat here along with viewers and listeners thinking absolutely what you said. Whilst all of these shenanigans are going on, this country's descending into utter chaos. Do you think that Streeting will show his hand this morning, Alex?

[00:05:14]I just I don't know, Jeremy. And I think it's it's isn't it it's conceivable that after the King's Speech is done, Streeting will resign. And say, you know, I can't come to I can't come to a deal with the Prime Minister.

[00:05:26]I'm off. I'm going to run. Um but I think he's going to have to wait until after all the pomp and ceremony's done because it'd be a horrible thing to do to embarrass the King he's about to come to Parliament uh and uh and read out the King's Speech. But here Yeah, isn't this the crazy thing, Jeremy, that we've what we have today, the King's Speech is where the government is meant to set out its agenda for the next kind of year or two.

[00:05:48]And we don't even know who the Prime Minister's going to be at the end of the day. I did it the whole thing is ludicrous. And yeah, I yeah, the Prime Minister is just trying to go on pretend as though nothing is wrong, pretending like he's in charge. All of his authority is gone. He is in office but not in power and it's time for him to take responsibility and it's time for the Labour Party to sort this mess out. If they've got any sense, whoever takes over will look at the work that came in the Conservatives have been doing and take that on as their agenda so that we don't have to wait three more years in order to to get decent government in this country.

[00:06:25]>> Let's get back to the King's speech. You make a really good point. I mean you've said you think that Streatham might resign afterwards. Nothing should impinge on that the meetings before with Starmer but the King. I'd be thinking I should be phoning in sick if I was the King. I'm being completely serious to sit in Parliament and go this is this is the policy and bills of my net my government in its next stages of development and as you say by Friday the guy that's written that crafted it and fronted it could be political toast.

[00:06:53]It's a sham.

[00:06:54]Yeah, it's a total sham and that you know the King for for very good reasons tries very hard to stay out of politics but I mean you can imagine his advisers saying that are you are you sure you want to put us through this because yeah, what if what if there's a new Prime Minister at the end of the week and they've got a new agenda and then and everything that's been read out today is is hogwash. Yeah, this yeah, the Labour Party needs to get a grip, needs to take control, it needs to make sure they have needs to get a new leader and it needs to listen to what the Conservative Party is saying and sort out the fundamental problems that this country faces. Otherwise, yeah, we'll just get a new leader and there'll be another there'll be another three years of this nonsense cuz Which is how you you you'd allow me you'd allow me to say this to you Alex and and you've always been good enough to come on which is what happened at the end when it went from Johnson to Truss to Sunak and people were like, you're just changing it and the problems aren't getting any better. Let me ask you the your take, right, on on and the Tory take, if you like. I mean, I'm really strong on this.

[00:07:53]I don't believe that MPs who defect should be able to represent local constituencies without a by-election.

[00:07:58]I'm never going to change my opinion. I know people will tell me constitutionally, you vote for a party, but I believe there's a figurehead, it is like almost a personal mandate. In fact, he said overnight, I was given a personal mandate to govern for 5 years and that's what I'm going to do. Um, if if he does fall, no, when he falls, it is absolutely right and proper to say that a general election should be called. I didn't support Major taking over without one. I didn't support Gordon Brown. I don't think it's right for the British people. And one thing I've learned doing this job is the silent majority have woken up and they will demand a general election without any shadow of a doubt.

[00:08:38]I I think it's highly questionable whether the Labour Party is going to be able to hold itself together. And you've seen these big factions emerging.

[00:08:47]Uh, you know, 100 people have supposedly signed a letter saying the Prime Minister should say Actually, it turns out that some of them didn't agree to be on the letter. I think almost 100 have said that he should go. You've been watching Yeah, that means that there's another 100 unaccounted for. That means that when those 100 people were approached by the Labour whips, they refused to sign. Now, we know that there are people backing Streeting. We know that there are people backing um uh Ed Miliband, people who are backing um you um Angela Rayner, Andy Burnham, and so on.

[00:09:16]When when somebody replaces Starmer, those rivalries aren't just going to disappear overnight, because none of those people has their own mandate, right? They'll have a mandate from a particular section of the Labour Party.

[00:09:28]So, it's very likely that that infighting will carry on. It would be quite a sensible thing for a a new Labour leader to do to seek their own mandate in the country. They won't do that. They won't have the guts to do that. They will cling onto power and they will cling onto power without any sense of what they should do. It's why they need to look at what the Conservatives are proposing today to sort out yeah, our borders, sort out our cost of energy, sort out welfare and get more people into work. That's what the country needs. Alex, final question.

[00:09:55]Again, doing the job correctly, you've said that Farage is hiding and Polanski's this and I get all of that.

[00:10:00]But I mean, would the Tories be ready for a general election bearing in mind those local election results and whatever the establishment says about reform, if you look at the latest YouGov poll this morning and that's quite intensive, they're back up to 28% and 11 points in the lead. So, if there was a general election, Nigel Farage would be the winner, wouldn't he? Not the Tories right now?

[00:10:23]Well, you you are an old hand at this.

[00:10:26]You know that general elections focus the minds of a lot of voters. But, where is Farage's foreign secretary? Where's his defense secretary? Where Where are his policies on a whole range of issues?

[00:10:37]What Where is his account of what happened with this 5 million quid? That when you put these people under scrutiny, actually there isn't much there. And you know, most voters, in my experience, are sensible. They care about their country. They want the right thing for their country. And it's not at all clear that this bunch of people have it. The Conservative Party under Kemi is recovering trust. It's recovering its sense of identity. It's going to bring down people's taxes.

[00:11:06]It's going to get proper growth in this country. It's going to fix this crazy legalistic world that Blair brought in and give us give us a new future. I'm you know, if we have to have that fight in the country at the general election in the next 6 months, we will do it and we will make our case and I'm confident that we can prevail. But, you and I both know that turkeys don't vote for Christmas. The Labour Party is going to cling onto power long after it's lost lost all Those Labour MPs are going to not want to want to want to give up their jobs.

[00:11:35]They are going to stay there and and and cling on. So, I don't think a general election is coming. Sadly, couldn't agree more, but great as ever to have you on. Good to get the tour of you. Alex Burghart, Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, thank you so much indeed, my friend. Live and exclusive from College Green.