The end is getting ever closer for Sir Keir Starmer, soon-to-be-former Prime Minister.

Everyone knew that his Labour Party was deeply unpopular. However, when the party was shellacked in local elections, it was the beginning of the end for the feckless wet dishrag that the United Kingdom had called prime minister for nearly two years. However, Keir Starmer refused to quit.

Since then, the result of the Henry Nowak murder trial and the release of MP Rupert Lowe’s “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” have rocked the United Kingdom. Starmer was tied to the hideous grooming and rape gang report, as he was the head of the Crown Prosecution Services for five years, while these crimes were taking place. While he claims that he prosecuted when he could, the evidence at hand does not show him to be aggressive in the defense of children. His cowardice when it came to the horrific murder of Henry Nowak, blaming Elon Musk for daring to point out some harsh truths about modern Britain, while having his own pandering over George Floyd shoved right back in his face, earned him exactly zero friends or political points.

With the special election of Labour rival Andy Burnham last week, it seemed the writing was on the wall for Keir Starmer. He might want to fight, but if he does, it will get ugly quickly.

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Burnham is seen as Starmer’s successor, but Starmer is going to have to walk out the door himself.

Sir Keir Starmer is weighing up his political future as pressure grows on him to announce his resignation.

It comes as cabinet ally Peter Kyle said the prime minister was considering “political realities” after Andy Burnham’s victory in the Makerfield by-election last week cleared a path for him to challenge for the Labour leadership.

In the wake of the result, the prime minister has faced fresh pleas from senior ministers to effectively make way for Burnham by setting out a timetable for his departure.

In the immediate aftermath of Burnham’s victory, Sir Keir continued to insist he would fight any formal leadership bid, meaning a contest in which Labour members and affiliated trade union supporters decide on the party’s future would be needed.

But in a shift in tone, Kyle, the business secretary, told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the prime minister was “taking the time to think through what the political realities are today, compared to last week and the week before”.

He said he had spoken to Sir Keir on Friday and was sure that “every decision he makes today” about Labour’s future would reflect “what’s in the best interests of the country”.

There was wide expectation on the front pages of Monday’s newspapers that change was coming soon, with reports saying Sir Keir was poised to set out a timetable for his departure.

And then, quite hilariously, President Trump announced that Keir Starmer was resigning before there was any official word.

President Donald Trump appeared to scoop Downing Street on Sunday, announcing that Prime Minister Keir Starmer would resign before any public statement from Starmer himself.

“Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom,” proclaimed in a social media post, in which he also asserted that Starmer had “failed badly” on immigration and energy policy.

Then, Trump added: “I wish him well!”

Cue the whining by the British media, even though the resignation appears inevitable.

Earlier on Sunday, British media had reported that Starmer was considering resigning. Still, Trump’s intervention represented an extraordinary foray into British domestic politics that left some veteran political observers stunned.

“There is literally no boundary this American president will not bulldoze through,” ITV’s Robert Peston wrote on X.

Peston also cited a cabinet minister who said that, despite Trump’s “scoop,” Starmer had “genuinely not made a decision to quit.”

Broadcaster Piers Morgan called it “the final humiliation.”

Downing Street told The Washington Post on Sunday evening that Starmer and Trump had not spoken over the weekend, raising questions about how the U.S. president came to make such a definitive prediction.

But it also didn’t mean Trump was wrong about Starmer’s plans. A senior Labour Party MP told The Post on Sunday evening that some Labour Party lawmakers were “being briefed that he will step down tomorrow and that he realizes his position is untenable.”

Speaking on the condition of anonymity because she wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly, she added that Starmer “no longer has the confidence” of his peers and that it was “only right that he now steps aside.”

It is genuinely funny to watch Sir Keir Starmer, this pathetic empty suit, get pantsed by Donald Trump on his way out the door. The entire point, of course, is for Labour to attempt to salvage what little power they have left with the newer and equally leftist Andy Burnham, and try to hang on. Given the local election results, it seems highly unlikely that rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is going to make much difference once there is a general election. The question becomes WHEN that general election takes place. Since Britain is a parliamentary system, the office of prime minister can change hands within the party without holding a new general election. The last one in 2024 put Starmer in power, as leader of his party. That his popularity has sunk like a rock has both to do with him, and the state of the country in general. But Labour could hold out for the rest of their term, and wait for the five year mark in 2029 to hold another one. The likelihood that they last quite that long is low, but entirely possible, and should make Americans extremely grateful that our Founding Fathers created a regulated system for Congressional and presidential elections.

Whenever Sir Keir finally exits 10 Downing Street, it will be with no love lost. He may yet hang around in government for a while, but he will have been neatly swept aside for new leadership. And if he decides to fight to keep his position, it will be due to his massive ego, and his desire to prove President Trump wrong. It would be quite amazing if the president’s comments spurred Starmer to cling to power at all costs, and ended up sealing the doom of the Labour Party for the near future. Now we get to wait and see how it plays out today.

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