Tick tock. A surprisingly inventive social media video from the Tories depicted the number adorning the famous black door of 10 Downing Street as a countdown. Ten, nine, eight… Little did they know that an hour later the news broke that Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sarwar was to call for Keir Starmer’s head. Metaphorically of course. Seven, six, five…
The events of the last 36 hours have sealed the fate of this Prime Minister. Belated and half hearted tweets of support from Cabinet ministers may stem the bleeding for now, but they will not save the patient.
Keir Starmer is now a dead man walking, leading a zombie government. What little authority remained has vanished and nobody seriously believes he can now govern as anything more than a caretaker. The question is when, not if, the Prime Minister goes.
But what sealed his fate? It wasn’t the opportunism of Anas Sarwar. It wasn’t the loss of Communications Director Tim Allan. Keir Starmer’s premiership died on Sunday with the loss of the man behind the entire Starmer project, Morgan McSweeney.
Just as Liz Truss was well and truly doomed from the moment she jettisoned her Chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, McSweeney made the Starmer project and his fate is intricately intertwined with that of the Prime Minister.
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