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Prime Minister Starmer is Doomed
- A Radical Dispatch
1) Starmer is Doomed
Keir Starmer is doomed. As of time of writing four senior ministers have resigned from his cabinet, and six ministerial aides have been replaced after calling for his resignation. The number of Labour MPs publicly calling for Starmer to step down or set a timetable for his departure has risen to between 80 and 90, depending on reports.
The senior ministers who resigned are Minister for Devolution, Faith and Communities Miatta Fahnbulleh, Minister for Victims and Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls Alex Davies-Jones, Health and Safety Minister Zubir Ahmed, and of course most well known of them all, Home Office Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips.
The Times reports 12th May 2026:
Here is Jess Phillips’ resignation letter.
As legitimate as Phillips’ concerns are about underage grooming in this letter, she has conveniently ignored the fact that the Labour party stands accused of being complicit in said grooming. Her concerns around online content should also be caveated. Labour has form in weaponising online safeguarding in order to clamp down on its political opponents.
We made this point about Labour’s relationship to free speech last night on Michelle Dewbury’s show Dewbs & Co. for GB News.
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Host Michelle Dewbury: “One of the other things, banning what he calls ‘far-right agitators’. I think we’re onto number 7. Many people disagree that they are far-right agitators. Is that the right focus area for him?”
Maajid Nawaz: “No. Look, one thing with the Labour Party is whenever they’re upset about what’s called hate speech, their first course of action is always to ban things, whether it’s online or offline. Their solution always seems to be to want to ban and clamp down on not just speech, but other forms of expression as well. And again, it’s just a knee-jerk reaction to the state for the solution to all of life’s problems.”
See our full one hour GB News debate on Dewbs & Co’s Tuesday 12th May show here.
Meanwhile, Health Secretary Wes Streeting is rumoured to be preparing to trigger a leadership challenge.
Though, as we stated on our GB News debate last night, Wes Streeting would merely be Keir Starmer reincarnated.
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Maajid Nawaz: “I don’t think that’s in touch with reality. I think most of the country look at Starmer’s achievements in foreign policy in embarrassment. The last time I was on your show Michelle, it was during the Iran crisis and he looked absolutely useless during the Iran crisis. We’ve lost allies around the world. I’m not saying we should’ve gone to war. What I’m saying is there wasn’t any response whatsoever, leaving aside the response of war.”
Former Labour Minister Bill Rammell: “That’s not what the public said, he had backing on the stance he’s taken over Iran”
Maajid Nawaz: “I’m not so sure. The Chagos Islands is another example, where even though it’s now thankfully suspended, Starmer’s performance in foreign policy is completely disconnected with the experience of the country. And then of course domestically, if Wes Streeting were to succeed Starmer, I think he’d just be a Starmer 2.0. I don’t think he brings anything new to the table. Kier Starmer is either a lame duck or a sitting duck, depending on which word you want to use. It’s only a matter of time before he’s gone, and that still doesn’t solve the problem, which is both mainstream establishment parties, the Conservatives and the Labour Party, are completely out of touch with the country.”
See our full one hour GB News debate on Dewbs & Co’s Tuesday 12th May show here.
As John McDonnell has strongly implied, perhaps Streeting should be more concerned about his relationship to Lord Mandelson’s cabal.
In particular, last night on air we cited national security concerns around Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s privitisation of access to our unified NHS health records due to PM Starmer’s multimillion pound contract with Peter Thiel’s AI military targeting company, Palantir.
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Maajid Nawaz: “Well they’re caught between a rock and a hard place, the Labour Party, because if it’s Burnham they’re going to shift to the left, even if it’s soft left admittedly, but that’s not where the electorate is and nor should it be. And if it’s Wes Streeting the issue is, Bill, that Wes Streeting, I’m not sure how he’d be any good for this country as Prime Minister considering he has privatised access to our health data in the NHS to private companies such as Palantir who now have access to the country’s personalised health data, due to the unified health database that Starmer signed them up to. That’s Peter Thiel’s Palantir. Now again, the electorate, proving again how Labour Party is so out-touch with the electorate, post-Covid the electorate simply has zero tolerance for that kind of intrusion into our personal health data for private companies.”
Former Blairite Labour Minister, Bill Rammell: “I don’t think that’s the view of the majority of people in this country. And one of Wes’s strengths, like the last Labour government, which dramatically reduced waiting times in the NHS, and partly it was by where it’s appropriate working with the private sector to plug capacity gaps in the National Health Service. And you know, the last Labour government reduced waiting lists from two years to 18 weeks, and Wes is moving in that direction.”
See our full one hour GB News debate on Dewbs & Co’s Tuesday 12th May show here.
Starmer does seem intent on opposing Streeting.
Meanwhile, Andy Burnham has also arrived in London preparing to stand in any by-election in order to challenge Starmer over the leadership.
The Times reports 12th May 2026:
“Heidi Alexander, the transport secretary, is backing plans for Andy Burnham to return to parliament, as the mayor of Greater Manchester builds cabinet support for a potential leadership race. Burnham is ready to trigger his return, and one ally said he had a seat ‘locked down’ and was ‘ready to move if he needs to’. A source in the Burnham camp said he had an MP willing to stand down to allow him to return to parliament and an announcement could be made as soon as Tuesday.”
Though none of these remedies or personalities will come close to addressing the root causes of the current disaffection.
Voters see blood. Labour itself is doomed.
2) Labour Are Doomed
As well as Starmer being doomed, his Labour party too are doomed. With Labour safeseats going Green, and the Red Wall going Reform, it has transpired just as last week’s Radical Dispatch forecasted.
Radical Media reports 6th May 2026
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Maajid Nawaz, WARRIOR CREED, 5th May 2026: "…Labour are Finished. We're going to break it down for you in the following way:…that is 'UK Local Elections: Muslim vote to To Destroy Labour Strongholds' and..what today will be about will be to...break down how exactly that's going to happen and demonstrate how the general sentiment of the Muslim vote in the UK will end up damaging the Labour Party most of all first and foremost...But of course, as should be clear by now, the elections are coming up in two days time. That's the nationwide UK local elections on the 7th of May 2026. It is going to mark a significant shift in the UK away from Keir Starmer's Labour Party and towards more populist parties. In the Labour strongholds this shift is likely to be reflected in the form of the vote for the Green Party headed by Zack Polanski. And, in those Conservative Party areas, as well as, interestingly, Labour Red Wall areas, in the Midlands and the North, the populist shift is expected to go strongly towards the Reform Party."
A visual depiction of the above looks something like this.
As desperate as some junior Labour MPs are to disassociate from Starmer’s toxic brand, it is too late. The Labour party has lost touch with reality.
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Jonathan Hind MP (Lab): “Well, it’s happening. The Prime Minister is going. No Prime Minister can survive this many MPs losing confidence in him.”
Host Fiona Bruce: “More MPs have said nothing, or have shown their support than those who have said they want him to go.”
Jonathan Hind MP (Lab): “I mean, it’s time to be real. He’s going. No doubt about it.”
Host Fiona Bruce: “And that’s what you want?”
Jonathan Hind MP (Lab): “Yeah. And to pick up on what Nick said about the speech this morning, I thought it was, if I’m being generous, tone deaf, at its worst I’d say it was downright insulting. Because you look at those results last week, we’re being swept away in our heartlands by Reform in Sunderland, Wigan, Grimsby, Hartlepool, St. Helens, Barnsley, Wakefield, I could go on. And to come out in response to that and start talking about Brexit and having free movement again.”
Host Fiona Bruce: “He didn’t talk about free movement.”
Jonathan Hind MP (Lab): “He was talking about free movement of people, he was talking about free movement of young people to go away from the country. Now those people, they’re more bothered about what’s going on here The people I represent in the towns of East Lancashire, Nelson, Cone, Clitheroe, Barnoldswick, they’re more interested in here. How do I get work here, so we can live our lives in this part of the country, which we love. And I love living there, and I love this country. And yes we want to travel abroad, but for that to be the focus when you’re fighting for your life as the Prime Minister, it was it was absurd. And then the Scunthorpe thing, if I may just finish, I totally agree with taking it into public ownership, and in fact most of the public thought we already had. We were talking about a technical detail here and it just about summed it up it was ‘proceduralism’ to the very last where he talked about it being subject to a public interest test, and I thought to myself ‘you do not understand my constituents’, but this you need to speak for the country and I’m sorry to say, I really am sorry to say: he cannot do that. So we need a new leader for the Labour Party, and our country most importantly needs a new leader.”
A point that we similarly emphasised on GB News.
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Host Michelle Dewbury: “Maajid, are you worried by the financial side of things?”
Maajid Nawaz: “100% and this is why I mentioned the Freedom of Movement example in Keir Starmer’s speech, because he’s saying he wants young people to travel to Europe. Nobody will have any money. People are struggling to buy their groceries every week, Michelle. People are struggling to pay their rent every month, and he’s talking about young people going to Europe and reintroducing Freedom of Movement. He is completely out of touch with the country. And really, the people in those economically deprived areas, if you look at those coastal towns, I was born in Southend-On-Sea, now all of Essex went Reform, we know about Great Yarmouth and what happened there with Rupert Lowe’s coalition, the coastal towns are, the reason they’re voting in this way is because economically they are suffering, and they have been for a long time. Wales is the same. So for Keir Starmer to sit there with the situation economically as it is, and in his imagination think that what people really want, they’ll make them vote for him again in the red wall, is to travel to Europe. It is madness.”
Host Michelle Dewbury: “It is very odd.”
See our full one hour GB News debate on Dewbs & Co’s Tuesday 12th May show here.
Labour are unlikely to recover from this political devastation no matter who leads them next.
3) Reform Takes Red Wall
Last week’s Dispatch also foresaw Labour losing their Red Wall seats to Reform.
Radical Media reports 6th May 2026
But Reform did even better than expected.
And the loss of Tory strongholds such as Essex to Reform too, was a bonus.
The Tories too are facing imminent wipeout.
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Despite the denials and obfuscations by Blairite Labour minister Bill Rammell on our GB News debate last night, momentum for Reform and Greens is now firmly the national direction of travel.
The establishment parties are yet to show signs of making even the most basic attempt at understanding what has just hit them electorally. With this author’s own voting pattern proving too confusing for Bill Rammell to attempt to decipher.
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Host Michelle Dewbury: “Do you want a general election now? Is that what you want to do? Return to the polls again? Bill?”
Former Labour Minister Bill Rammell: “If you had a general election tomorrow, you’d have a massively hung parliament. The political situation, Maajid, is much more complicated than you are suggesting. What we’ve got is a massively fractured political landscape. The Reform Party, which by the sound of it you’re supporting, it was 5% down in its national share of the vote last week compared to the previous year. The Tory party, Ben, you know, the principal party of opposition with an unpopular Labour government midterm lost over 500 seats and had a national share of the vote below 20%. Yes my party did badly, but I think across the board there are real challenges and fracturing, and that’s in part why we have the turnover of Prime Ministers that we’re having. This is a different political age. What I do think is necessary is that the Labour Party resolves this issue, and I agree with Ben on this, as quickly as possible. We can’t go on with this instability. That’s damaging to the government, damaging to the Labour party, and it’s damaging to the country.”
Maajid Nawaz: “Michelle, just on the point of a supporting reform, Bill, look, I’m a former Lib Dem candidate, actually, in London, 2015. This time around, I voted tactically as I always do because I’m no longer a member of any party. Tactically, because I live in a safe Labour seat in London, I voted Green. Though, I would like to see Nigel Farage as Prime Minister. But let me put it to you as a question. Can you explain me? Can you explain a former Lib Dem candidate who voted Green this time around who wants to see Farage as PM? Because you’re in the party of government. You’re in the party of government. Try and explain that though. Because the electorate is in a similar place.”
Bill Rammell: “I can’t, Maajid. You’ve got to explain that. You’re not like any classic Lib Dem I’ve ever known, and the fact that you voted for Greens, who are a bunch of extremist anti-Semites…”
Maajid Nawaz: “Who is, sorry?”
Bill Rammell: “….the Greens who are a bunch of extremist anti-Semites…”
Maajid Nawaz: “No, but I voted tactically, I don’t support that.”
Bill Rammell: “…but you’re still backing people who’ve got atrocious views…”
Maajid Nawaz: “No, I’d rather deliver a bloody nose to the Labour Party.”
Bill Rammell: “…and you want Farage in Downing Street. I can’t explain your motivation.”
Maajid Nawaz: “Well, that’s the problem. The fact you can’t explain it is the issue because I would argue that my voting pattern is reflective of the British electorate. The British electorate voted, in a combined way, for the Greens and for the Reform Party. Why is the question? And until that message is understood by both of your We’re going to see more of the same.”
Former Labour Minister Bill Rammell: “But they didn’t. It wasn’t just a rejection of Labour and Conservatives.”
Maajid Nawaz “Oh yes it was.”
Former Labour Minister Bill Rammell: “…it was a rejection across the board. There was no party with the level of support that historically you would expect a party to have midterm in order to go on and win a general election.”
See our full one hour GB News debate on Dewbs & Co’s Tuesday 12th May show here.
Rammel’s desperate obfuscation above ignores the basic point: there is an electoral insurgency ongoing. And the insurgent parties are clearly winning that insurgency.
4) Two Party System is Finished
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