What now for Keir Starmer and his government – discussion
A week after the local elections, which exposed the public’s loss of faith in the government, today’s King’s Speech should have been about their plan to address that.
Instead, it was a somewhat surreal spectacle – King Charles announcing the government’s agenda to Parliament – while more than 80 of the MPs sitting behind the Prime Minister had made clear they had little faith in his authority to deliver it.
And Channel 4 News has learned that Keir Starmer has been telling those MPs that he will not resign or set out a timetable for a drawn out leadership contest – describing it as the most irresponsible thing he could do.
We were joined by David Yelland, the former editor of The Sun newspaper, and Theo Bertram, a former advisor to Tony Blair and Gordan Brown.
