Rupert Lowe MP, the leader of Restore Britain, has said he would support a no confidence vote on Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons.
On his party’s view on the Prime Minister, he told Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg on GB News: “The answer to that question is, I think we’ve got basically a Prime Minister who, in my view, is economical with the truth.
“Let’s talk about Mandelson. On the Mandelson issue, I spoke against the appointment of Mandelson at the time. Donald Trump described him as a moron. He was rude about Donald Trump.
“So on the face of it at the time, it was the most extraordinary appointment, and one which didn’t make any logical common sense…
“I think he’s been dealing, as I say, in half-truths, in half-lies, whichever you want to define them as, in half falsehoods, probably falsehoods. And Olly Robbins, I think, made it quite clear yesterday that actually the Prime Minister’s Office had made the decision to appoint Peter Mandelson, and what the civil servants required to do is to find a way to deliver that appointment, even though he’d failed his vetting.
“On the Mandelson issue, it’s more of the same. I blame Blair, Brown, Campbell, Mandelson and Derry Irvine for the beginning of the undermining of the British constitution, with all the various reforms they did, from the Human Rights Act to the creation of the Supreme Court, to the Equality Act – all the things that they did that I think had long-lasting, damaging consequences for the way in which we’re governed, and is probably part of the reason why we’ve ended up with a human rights lawyer like Keir Starmer, who I think will meet himself coming around a corner one day.
“I don’t like him, I don’t respect him. I think he’s a very poor Prime Minister. If I was forced to vote on whether he should resign, I would vote for him to resign.
“But half of me says actually, leaving him there as a lame duck is probably better for the other parties in terms of the British public becoming tired of the Labour Party and tired of the offering which he’s giving, giving the Chagos islands away, all of the things that are completely illogical.
“To your point there, I wasn’t in the chamber. If I’m forced to vote on it, I would vote, I would support a vote of no confidence.”
