Labour is in utter meltdown. The fratricide has commenced in earnest. Yesterday in scenes reminiscent of a Shakespearean drama you could barely move for all the Labour backbenchers queuing up to attack Sir Keir Starmer yesterday. Stabbing him not only in the back but in the front as well.
One by one they lined up across the airwaves, accusing the Prime Minister of being weak after Labour's National Executive Committee blocked his rival Andy Burnham from standing at the forthcoming Gorton and Dent by-election.
Sir Keir may think that by seeing off Mr Burnham this time gives his Premiership a stay of execution. In fact, it will do quite the opposite. It will almost certainly will hasten his demise.
Yesterday's decision by the Starmer-friendly NEC was yet further proof that this is a Prime Minister who is running out of time, running out of allies and running scared of the electorate.
We have seen it already in his disgraceful decision last week to scrap 29 local elections in May in areas where Reform UK was likely to win, thus
denying 4.5m voters their basic democratic rights. Only dictators cancel elections. Starmer should be ashamed of himself and his failing administration
However, Starmer is right to be scared. Because whilst his government engages in ripping itself apart, we at Reform UK are building a team to fix Broken Britain.
In the coming days we will announce our candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election. This will give voters a chance to send this government a clear message over its catastrophic mismanagement of this country over the past 18 months.
The area has until now been a Labour stronghold for decades. But As Nigel Farage has already made clear, we are going to throw everything at it, just as we are going to do at the local elections which follow.
The people of Gorton and Denton deserve better than this bitter, divided, clapped-out Labour Party. Frankly, the whole country deserves better. Time to send this hopeless, directionless self-serving government packing
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