Held to Ransom by the Left As Streeting and Rayner Bide Their Time

Held to ransom by the Left as Streeting and Rayner bide their time: Starmer faces pressure to turn on Trump, bring in ‘wealth tax’, nationalise industries and hammer landlords to survive

JAMES TAPSFIELD

Keir Starmer is facing a laundry list of left-wing demands as he struggles to keep his grip on power.

The PM signalled a lurch to a more socialist programme yesterday after a political near-death experience over the Mandelson scandal.

With the threat level to his premiership still critically high, Sir Keir deployed the language of class war insisting working people were being oppressed.

But rivals such as Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are waiting in the wings, with the Health Secretary last night forced to deny he is plotting a move to oust the PM within weeks.

Sir Keir’s weakness has opened the door for a host of MPs to push pet left-wing policies, such as a ‘wealth tax’, more generous benefits and nationalisation.

Plans to give 16-year-olds the vote could also be speeded up, as the premier attempts to appease his mutinous troops.

Andy Burnham and Cabinet minister Ed Miliband – often nicknamed ‘Red Ed’ – led the charge for a more radical approach yesterday.

The Manchester mayor accused politicians in London of getting ‘too close to wealth’ and being ‘seduced’ by free market economic solutions to social problems.

Among changes he suggested were a commitment to build 500,000 council and social homes by the end of the decade, and give councils the power to compulsorily purchase substandard homes from private landlords.

He also used his speech at a think tank conference to lament how privatisation of utilities had taken power away from the poor.

Backbencher Andy McDonald said the government should ‘do more’ of measures like the controversial employment rights overhaul – which was championed by Ms Rayner but caused panic among businesses.

‘What a ridiculous situation where water companies are extracting these dividends. Let’s take on those things, let’s be bold in the offer that we are making to the British people,’ he told Channel 4 News.

Labour MP Neil Duncan-Jordan is demanding the government sweeps away means-testing and ‘opt-ins’ that ‘create barriers’ for people claiming benefits.

Meanwhile, former frontbencher Clive Lewis yesterday suggested that Sir Keir should take a more confrontational approach to Donald Trump.

In a debate on a Ministry of Defence contract with Palantir, Mr Lewis said: ‘Surely, after Greenland, now is an opportunity for our Government to begin to distance themselves and pivot away from companies, such as Palantir, that are so closely connected with Donald Trump. It is time to move away.’

Sir Keir gathered ministers for a Cabinet meeting yesterday thanking them for their support despite more than 24 hours of deathly silence in the wake of his chief aide’s resignation over the Mandelson scandal.

They only finally rallied round after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar demanded he quit – with questions swirling about what concessions and deals Sir Keir might have made for his survival.

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Labour’s lurch to the Left is the spark that will ignite a revolution

British public attitudes have dramatically shifted. More and more of us are sick and tired of ever increasing taxes and spending

ALLISTER HEATH

Cloistered in his No 10 bunker, bereft of his svengali, ruined by his incompetence, cowardice and grift, Sir Keir Starmer has been taken hostage by a Labour Left convinced total victory is nigh.

Starmer now serves at their pleasure, a caretaker PM in hock to Ed Miliband and Angela Rayner, a human shock absorber primed for the Mandelson message tsunami and the Gorton and Denton apocalypse.

When the time is right, Starmer the Sellout (as Leftists view him) will be tossed aside and a real socialist propelled into power. The first part of the plan is great but the second amounts to a historic misreading of the zeitgeist. Reform and the Tories must stand ready, for Labour is about to declare a doomed blitzkrieg on an electorate already in a seditious mood.

There will be jubilation across the land when Starmer, a nasty, dishonest avatar of a Prime Minister is ousted but the Labour rebels’ confirmation bias makes them incapable of understanding why he is so hated, or the historic paradigm shift upending British society. Yes, voters despise Starmer’s character flaws but public opinion is shifting more profoundly. Despite demographic change and welfare creep, voters are moving Rightwards, not Leftwards, as many ludicrously believe.

Labour should be doing the same. We want less tax and spend, not a super-charged Starmer Mark II doubling down on net zero, class warfare, attacks on private schools or human rights laws. We want a real war on crime. We demand a drastic reduction in immigration and zero tolerance towards Islamist extremism. We require tax cuts that liberate enterprise and reward those who work hard. Voters will go mad when a new PM gives them the opposite of what they want.

Few in Westminster realise the scale of the red-pilling of the electorate since Starmer’s election: they are incandescent with rage at the explosion in welfarism, the unfairness of doling out cash to the lazy and feckless, the grossly exaggerated incapacity epidemic. They still want to help those who truly can’t care for themselves but realise taxpayers have been taken for a ride. They cannot fathom why Starmer hasn’t stopped the boats or why migrants aren’t required to support themselves.

They have become radicalised by tax and spending at record highs, by obscene levels of waste and inefficiency in the public sector, by being asked to pay ever more for Third World services, potholed and litter-strewn roads, absent police and unreachable GPs.

Even the NHS is no longer sacrosanct, and polls tentatively indicate a realisation that the health service is fundamentally broken, that change may be required. Support for net zero is collapsing. Millions want to get richer, to own and consume more, not suffer from stagnant real wages, flat GDP per capita, ever higher tax and endless anti-consumerist propaganda.

The productive classes, the net contributors, those who put more in than they collect in benefits or government spending, have had enough. They understand socialism has been tried by Starmer, and shown to fail. They will be furious if Labour imposes another PM who hates them. This is a Right-wing inflection point similar to that of 1979 or 2016.

Labour’s misnamed soft Left – in reality, fanatical class warriors, radical urban progressives, anti-capitalist nutjobs and born-again Rejoiners – have misread the present moment. Their political myopia, their ideological blinkers, their lack of empathy or understanding for aspirational working and middle England is even worse than Starmer’s, who had Morgan McSweeney to keep him anchored. The PM’s pathetic attempt at pretending to be working class fools nobody.

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