John Healey

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The News Agents · Starmer in shambles: Can he last the week? · 12 Jun 2026 podcast

Or you go as a leader who ran us into the ground, who leads to a squabbling, bad-tempered election contest where no one wins and the party's reputation lies in tatters at the end of it.

And I can see how you frame that argument.

And I can see the mechanism.

And I think you're right to talk about the lack of discipline on the front bench now.

And the lack of loyalty.

I was told last night that apparently...

Keir Starmer was really hurt and taken aback by Ed Miliband, sort of suggesting that it was time that Keir Starmer thought about laying out a timetable in the wake of the local council elections.

And I think that speaks to how unpolitical Keir Starmer is, that he thinks, well, but Ed Miliband's my friend.

How could he possibly do that?

And so I think that there is every possibility that there is stubbornness.

I still think the most likely scenario is

is what happened with Margaret Thatcher when at the end of her time in office, when, you know, there'd been the leadership contest.

She'd failed to win outright by two votes.

And bit by bit, the cabinet kind of say to her, even though she says, I fight, I fight to win.

Members of the cabinet, one by one, go in to see her and say,

I'm sorry, Margaret, I say it with a heavy heart, but it's over.

And I think if the cabinet go in and say to Starmer, it's over, this doesn't go on and it can't go on.

And if you try to make it go on even further without setting out a timetable, we'll go nuclear.

I think he has to listen, doesn't he?

And this is why, you know, some of the stuff I've heard of the sort of the power brokers of the soft left in the Labour Party, who in terms of policy, were getting an awful lot of what they wanted from Keir Starmer.

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