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Keir Starmer is out of control (Image: Getty)
It hasn’t even been a year since Keir Starmer walked into Number 10 — and already his Government is crumbling. For a man who promised “stability” and “grown-up politics,” what we’ve had is chaos, cowardice, and cruelty. The honeymoon is over. The knives are out. And the rebellion has begun. Labour’s so-called “landslide” in 2024 was an illusion. Fewer people voted for Labour under Starmer than under Jeremy Corbyn in 2019.
Barely one in five Britons backed him. Labour didn’t win the country — the Tories simply lost it. Now, Starmer’s wafer-thin public support is evaporating. Why? Because he’s betrayed the very people his party claimed to represent. Pensioners, small business owners, the disabled, and working families — all thrown under the bus in pursuit of his ideology.
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Labour has made it more expensive for businesses to hire people. In the middle of a productivity crisis. During a cost-of-living crunch. When unemployment is creeping up. What sane government makes hiring harder in a stagnating economy?
And what’s all this for? Is it to balance the books? Apparently not — because the Government still finds billions to hand over to Mauritius for the Chagos Islands, and still puts illegal immigrants in hotels at a cost of ￡5 billion a year. Labour is cutting support for the vulnerable to fund performative globalist gestures and an immigration system that is a national embarrassment.
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But the rebellion is brewing. Over 130 Labour MPs have already signed a letter opposing the welfare cuts due for a vote next month. That’s a staggering number. For a Prime Minister less than a year into office, it’s not just humiliating — it’s potentially fatal. These aren’t seasoned rebels. Many are first-time MPs, horrified at what they’re being asked to rubber-stamp.
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They signed up to fight poverty — not to deepen it. They campaigned on compassion — not cruelty. And now, having watched Labour cut fuel support for pensioners and target the disabled, they are saying enough is enough.
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The pressure is mounting. Starmer’s partial U-turn on winter fuel payments hasn’t calmed things — it’s inflamed them. Backbenchers, now emboldened, smell weakness. They want more reversals.
More concessions. A halt to the welfare cuts. A rethink on the two-child benefit cap. And all the while, leadership hopefuls are circling. Angela Rayner, always keen to remind Starmer who the grassroots prefer, is openly contradicting the Chancellor with her own tax plans — plans which, conveniently, claim to raise just enough to cancel the welfare cuts.
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Never mind the dodgy maths — the politics is obvious. She’s laying down her marker. Starmer is stuck. Backbenchers are furious. The unions are restless. The public is losing patience.
The coming weeks will be decisive. If Starmer pushes ahead with the PIP and welfare cuts, he faces a revolt from within. If he caves, his authority as Prime Minister collapses further. Either way, the mask of control has slipped.
What we are witnessing is the beginning of a collapse — not just of Labour’s short-lived mandate, but of the fantasy that Keir Starmer was ever up to the job.