Patrick O’Flynn Patrick O’Flynn

Labour is doomed under Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer has seen his poll ratings tank since taking office (Getty images)

Voters simply haven’t taken to the party leader and that’s becoming impossible to ignore. Presenting the public at the next election with a figure they don’t like, rate or agree with would be madness. So at some stage a new leader will have to be installed.

There are certainly some mutterings to this effect in Tory circles, about Kemi Badenoch. But the die is not cast on that. Instead, we must look across the aisle to find the leader who has reached the point of no return.

Cold, aloof, po-faced and priggish, the PM has set about alienating vast swathes of the electorate at breakneck pace

Perhaps this sounds counterintuitive given that Keir Starmer sits at the head of an army of more than 400 Labour MPs? Yet everything about him is a disaster for their prospects of getting re-elected. Cold, aloof, po-faced and priggish, the Prime Minister has set about alienating vast swathes of the electorate at breakneck pace.

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