GB News guest issues scathing six-word takedown of Starmer after 'botched' sackings

The Prime minister Keir Starmer faced brutal criticism during Monday's broadcast of GB News, in which presenters Eammon Holmes and Ellie Costello were joined by journalist James Rampton. This comes after a top story which suggested the leader was said to be "clinging onto his premiership," following the controversial handling of his government. Costello reported: "Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly pinning all of his hopes on Donald Trump's state visit going off without a hitch." While Holmes suggested that the US leader's visit could provide a "distraction" from "the threat of a backbend rebellion".

When questioned about his view, Rampton stated: "The danger is pinning anything on Donald Trump, it's risky because you never know what he's going to say." "Although we're reading this morning that there is going to be a big new deal, that they're announcing between the UK and the US that is going to be very posiitive for the econonmy," he added.

As the journalist continued: "Keir Starmer needs all the positive news that he can get," Holmes interjected: "That nuclear deal has just come out of nowhere ... we weren't in the market for a number of small number of nuclear power station until about two weeks ago."

Rampton chimed: "Well, until you might say, the last Labour scandal. That's too cynical an approach perhaps; it may have been discussed behind the scenes for months, we don't know that.

"However, it's certainly true that Starmer is in desperate need of good news; the past two weeks have been cataclysmically bad for him, they have unleashed a torrent of unease on his own backbenches."

When asked if the scandal "feels like a death" for Starmer, Rampton explained: "That is one of the phrases the MP's are using. The Mandelson scandal, they're saying, is a death now. There are more questions about when Sir Keir knew the full detail of the scandal involving Jeffrey Epstein."

Reflecting on Labour's victory, Rampton said: "It was only just a year ago that Sir Keir Starmer won a landslide and everyone said in the famous words of Tony Blair 'A new day has dawned.'

"Everyone thought that this was a new start after the Tory sleaze and scandals, but unfortunately, Starmer seems to have fallen into the same trap.

"He seems to be politically tone deaf, which is a fatal trait when you're the Prime Minister. You have to be able to read the room, and it seems to me that he's got a tin ear and he's slightly wonky in his eyesight."

"The journalist added: "He cannot tell what's going to happen politically, and that to me is disastrous. He botched the sacking of Angela Rayner, he botched the sacking of Peter Mandelson, a politically astute PM would have got ahead of the game and really settled those issues before they became toxic for him."