Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the “last rites are being read” for Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership.
Speaking on GB News Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said:
“The words on the wall that were written by the moving hand, you will recall when you did scripture at school, means you have been weighed in the balance and found wanting.
“These are the words that now over 60 MPs have said to Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party.
“Five junior members of the government have resigned, including the parliamentary private secretaries to the Deputy Prime Minister, David Lammy, and to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting.
“This means it is over for the Prime Minister, a Prime Minister who thought this morning he could cover up his disastrous local election results, his loss, his erosion of authority, his way to salvation was by getting on a podium and inspiring the nation.
“Well, he inspired nobody.
“What did he talk about? He talked about chaos. He said without him, there was chaos. Après moi, the deluge. But could we have a worse deluge than we’ve currently got? Could we have a less active government? A government that is less competent to carry out what it wishes to do?
“One that is more bounced about like a Bagatelle ball every day as it finds that whatever it tries to do it fails to do. Its plans fall asunder as it makes an effort to get a grip on this nation.
“It has failed since it took office. Why? Because Sir Keir Starmer never had a plan of what to do. He didn’t have an idea or a vision of what he believed in. He couldn’t see the way through for his country and his party to the sunlit uplands.
“Instead, U turn after U turn, failed policy, economic mistakes, poverty being inflicted on this nation, environment rules that make us cold and poor, an inability to get the country building.
“An utter failure in our relationship with the United States that had to be rescued by the King. And the new idea? The new idea is that we should nationalise steel, an idea from the 1950s, and that we should go back into the European Union, but only by stealth, because he doesn’t dare tell the truth.
“It is a most hopeless apology for government and a weak Prime Minister; a Prime Minister who thinks he can get out of this mess, but he can’t.
“It’s done. It’s over. The last rites are being read, and it will, no doubt, be soon, that we will have another prime minister.”
