‘Clearly MISLED Parliament’ | CALLS for Keir Starmer to RESIGN over ‘breaking rules’ of the House

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[00:00:00]Let's speak to the shadow chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Alex Burkhart.

[00:00:04]Mr. Burkhart, it's already been a thrilling morning, I can assure you, with a very uh strange interview with Tom Hayes, the Labour MP for Bournemouth East, who I think unseated. Was it Tobias Elwood? Can't remember now. Um, now let's ask you because you're the ones I think tableabling this motion of no Are you doing that? Are you going to table a motion of no confidence in the prime minister this week?

[00:00:29]Hi, Camila. We've got a very busy week in Parliament. We've got the prime minister giving a statement tomorrow where he's going to have to account for what he's done. On Tuesday, we have Ollie Robbins who is the the former permanent secretary at the foreign office who was fired very dramatically a few days ago. And on Wednesday, we'll have prime minister's questions. Now, there are number of other things that the opposition can do uh in the Commons which we're weighing up. But you know they're um the uh all eyes are on the prime minister and Ollie Robbins uh for what they disclose.

[00:01:02]>> So with this charge that he's misled parliament either knowingly or unknowingly first of all do you think it's knowing or unknowing?

[00:01:12]So he he's clearly misled parliament and uh so in February Kem asked him, you'll remember committee, Kemmy asked him at the spatch box, did the security vetting of Peter Mandlesson throw up anything to do with his links with Jeffrey Epstein.

[00:01:25]Uh and the prime minister said yes. And that strongly suggests that he had seen the security vetting which he now claims he hasn't seen. Right? So problem number one. Problem number two is that even if he didn't know anything about it, which I think is very unlikely, but even if he didn't know anything about it, Downing Street have admitted that on Tuesday night he was told and under the rules of the House of Commons, yeah, he has a very solemn duty to come to the house whenever anything is serious this happens and and admit that he's made a mistake. And on Wednesday, he didn't do that. On Thursday, he didn't do that.

[00:01:59]And the story only came out on Thursday night because investigative journalists brought it out. So yeah, by any stretch he has misled the house. He didn't correct the rules. He has broken the rules of the house. He's in very serious trouble.

[00:02:13]>> Okay. So if he has to correct the record, then then that's an admission that he has misled parliament. And then as far as you're concerned, that's a resignation offense.

[00:02:25]So, I think he should resign because I think he has clear one way or another, he has clearly misled the House. But I also think he should resign because of all of the disastrous things he's done to our country in the time that he's been prime minister. And I I just you this is this is not so much the straw that breaks the camel's back as the anvil that breaks the camel's back. But I just I I think we've all had enough of him. It's time for him to go.

[00:02:45]>> Well, you say that. I mean, judging by my interview with Tom Hayes, there's a degree of um denialism going on within the Labour Party and he's not likely to resign, is he? I mean, Turkeys don't generally like to vote for Christmas.

[00:02:58]So, how confident are you that any mechanisms that you can come up with, parliamentary or otherwise, can work?

[00:03:05]Because, as you know, you need Labor MPs to support you. I mean, have the Tory whips spoken to any disgruntled backbenches? What's the mood like on the on the opposite benches?

[00:03:17]It's very clear that there's a large number of Labour MPs who are furious with the prime minister. They feel very badly let down. Uh and I don't think that they want his premiership to continue. And I think it's becoming a question of when and not if. Uh and you the Conservative party who desperately want to see the back of him is doing all it can to to pile on that pressure. And it's been the work of Kem uh and her team that has exposed a lot of the things that the prime minister has gotten wrong. not just on on Mandlesson but on uh on a host of other issues as well. So you look we're we're ready to ready to work with uh work with Labour MPs on this but as you you're absolutely right Kima that Labour's got a large majority. It's going to be down to whether that pack moves.

[00:03:59]>> Yes. Well, how many have to move? Let's just do a bit of parliamentary maths.

[00:04:03]Never my strong point being more of a English and humanities girl. But we've got all of your MPs. Let's assume the Lib Dems support you. Are they going to support you if you did table a motion of no confidence? Yes, probably. I think.

[00:04:19]>> Do you think? Yeah.

[00:04:19]>> So, I I I don't I don't know, Camila.

[00:04:21]But what you've what you've often seen in these cases is that it's not an actual vote that pushes things. It's that uh people in the governing party decide that they can't support the leader anymore and they start resigning.

[00:04:32]And that creates a uh that creates a ground swell. It creates a sense of momentum. And I think the prime minister uh you know has has shown that he can be pretty ruthless when his own job's on the line. You he's fired his his chief of staff, his head of comms, the cabinet secretary, the chief mandarin in the uh in the foreign office now. Uh but he doesn't want to take responsibility himself. It's our job, Conservative Party's job to make sure he takes responsibility.

[00:04:54]>> Yes, I'd be worried if I'm Larry the Cat, last person in Downing Street to be sacked. But just to get back to um how things might work out this week, um don't you need to be a bit careful what you wish for here? We've got a story in the sun on Sunday about Angela Raina and Andy Burnham meeting up. Well, let's be perfectly honest. Neither of them can challenge the prime minister right now.

[00:05:14]Angela Raina still being investigated for her taxes. Andy Bernham doesn't even have a parliamentary seat. So then you're looking at the prospect according to the Sunday Telegraph of Prime Minister Ed Milliband.

[00:05:29]>> Look, it's what what's happening here is that Kia Starmer has run out of road. He doesn't deserve to be prime minister anymore and it's our job to um you know to make him see sense and get out. Yeah.

[00:05:42]The Labour party if that happens the Labour Party will have to decide uh who comes next. I don't think that they've got anyone of any quality. I don't think that they'll be able to sort of magic somebody up who can fix the mess they've already made. Uh but the fact is that Karma doesn't deserve to be prime minister anymore. He has to go.

[00:05:58]>> Okay. Um is there a degree of hypocrisy from your side here? Tom Hayes making the point that Boris Johnson was accused repeatedly of misleading parliament and didn't actually end up resigning over that. He ended up resigning really over Chris Pincher and he was forced into resigning because his cabinet was falling apart around him including the resignation of Rich Rishi Sunnak as chancellor if you remember.

[00:06:23]>> So there was an investigation into Boris um and by the time it concluded uh he'd already resigned as prime minister. But look what what's happening here is that yeah we yeah of course we had our troubles in the last parliament. It's why the British public voted us out.

[00:06:36]It's why we're renewing the party now under Kem. But what what we've seen here is that there are a whole bunch of uh Labour MPs around Kama who live through this before. They know exactly what their responsibilities are. They know exactly that you can't go around misleading parliament and get away with it. This is you know what what they've done they've done in full knowledge and that's why they've got to go.

[00:06:57]>> If we do have a situation where the prime minister resigns or is forced out fairly imminently, let's be honest, it might not happen now. It might happen after the May elections. Who knows? Are you going to be agitating for a general election? I mean, you're not in the best position from a polling perspective. You may be outdone by reform. That's what all of the numbers suggest right now.

[00:07:17]So, first question, will you agitate for a general election? Second question, if you do, don't you need to team up with reform to beat Labor or indeed a progressive alliance on the left?

[00:07:32]I don't think that there's any way that the Labour Party, which still has the votes in the House of Commons, is going to allow a general election to happen in the next three years because, you know, they're they're a long way behind in the polls. They're very unpopular because the disastrous decisions they've made.

[00:07:46]The Conservative Party under Kem has come an enormously long way in the past 18 months, but we have further to go.

[00:07:52]And that's why we're out working very hard both holding this stupid government to account but also you know setting out how we would improve you know things for the economy you get more people into work reduce the cost of doing business uh and reduce people's energy bills. So you know look we're we're out there fighting to we're we're out there fighting to you know uh restore uh our credibility with the British public and um uh but yeah the Labour Party is not going to allow a general election for the next three years. We got to be clear about that. I I'm getting the impression that the tries don't really want one for the next three years either because you're not ready.

[00:08:25]>> Look, you obviously need some time in opposition uh to get ready. All parties do.

[00:08:30]>> So, you're not ready.

[00:08:30]>> Yeah, we we we know that we've got three years.

[00:08:33]>> We know that we look Kill, we we one of the things you have to do with opposition, one of the things the Labour Party didn't do is prepare for government. And that's not a that's not a quick process. And if you want to do your homework properly, it takes time.

[00:08:45]I'm making this process we're engaged in political process.

[00:08:49]>> You're saying that no one is fit to replace the prime minister. The prime minister himself isn't fit. Therefore, really as the opposition, you should be agitating for a general election on behalf of the country whether or not it suits Tory party politics. That would be the decent and honorable thing to do.

[00:09:04]But you're saying you're not ready.

[00:09:08]>> I'm saying that the Labour party isn't going to let us have a general election for the next three years. We used one all of that time wisely to prepare for government.

[00:09:16]>> Well, you should perhaps one. You should campaign for one because you're talking you were talking earlier. You're saying you can have three more years of labor because we're not ready. That's not really good enough, is it?

[00:09:30]>> Well, it's not quite what I'm saying, is it? What I'm saying is that you're going to get three more years of labor because Labour MPs are the turkeys who won't vote for Christmas, to use the phrase you used a moment ago. So, um, you know, but we we will use our time and opposition very wisely to get ready to make sure that come the next election, we have a brilliant plan to put to the British people so that we can improve the state our country is in. That's what the Conservatives are doing and I'm really proud to be a part of it.

[00:09:53]>> But by that point, you might be wiped out in Wales and Scotland. At the moment, you're in fourth place in Wales and fifth place in Scotland. I mean, if you're you don't have a presence really in Wales and Scotland, then you're facing a bit of an existential crisis, aren't you?

[00:10:10]Well, nationally you'll know that Kebie is now the most popular leader and you'll know that we're the most trusted party on the economy. We still got a lot to do. You know, we only had it was only um yeah, just over a year and a half ago that we had our worst ever election defeat, but the process of renewal is going well. I'm really pleased to be a part of it and I think I think Kem and the team are doing a fantastic job.

[00:10:29]>> All right, we'll be watching your parliamentary shenanigans very closely on GB News over the coming days. Thank you very much indeed, Alex Burkheart.

[00:10:38]Thanks, Camillet.