George Parker

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The Pat Kenny Show · Is Kier Starmer on the precipice? · 9 May 2026 podcast

And what was if you sort of look below the bonnet of that, you can see the Labour Party being obliterated in some of the working class English towns, places like Wigan or Sunderland by Farage's Reform UK.

And in Wales, where basically Labour's run the roost for the best part of a century, they've lost control there of the Senate.

And in Scotland, the SNP have continued a governance there which lasted for almost 20 years.

So all across the UK, apart from Northern Ireland, the Labour Party has been absolutely hammered.

Now, what about the Conservatives?

I mean, they were looking like a party that was doomed in any event and that Farage would certainly eat their lunch.

Obviously, his appetite is broader than just the Conservatives.

But how did they do?

Really badly as well.

I mean, what you're really seeing is the breaking up, or at least we saw the breaking up yesterday, of the old two-party system in Britain, the sort of duopoly of the Conservatives and the Labour Party, who've dominated Westminster politics for the best part of, well, for over a century now, being broken.

And the Conservatives, like the Labour Party, were hammered in places like Essex, just outside London, which is where Kemi Badenock, the Tory leader, has her seat, and a number of other places.

Tory bigwigs.

Reform UK completely smashed them.

They lost, I think, over between 500 and 600 seats.

The only thing that I would say about the Conservative Party is that despite the fact they did really badly, the spotlight has not been on Kemi Badenoch in the way it has been about Keir Starmer, just because she actually is slightly more popular than her extremely unpopular party.

Now, the statement from Starmer that I take full responsibility for these terrible results, but I'm not going anywhere.

So what does taking responsibility mean?

Well, that's a good question.

And there are a lot of Labour MPs who would wish that he took responsibility, as you suggest, by quitting.

But Keir Starmer's a stubborn man, he's a proud man, and he believes that he can turn things around.

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