Labour turmoil proves a gift for surging Reform

IR Keir Starmer yesterday scrambled to rescue his crisis-hit administration in the ‘wake of his deputy Angela Rayner’s resignation as Nigel Farage urged his assembled supporters at the Reform UK conference to get ready for an early election — and the challenge of Government.

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The Labour leader’s first year as Prime Minister was defined by gaffes, U-turns, a collapse in support, an escalation of the small boats crisis and the killing-off of growth. Now his second year in Downing Street sees his top team in chaos.

The spectacle of a deputy leader and Housing Secretary forced to quit for failing to pay the full stamp duty on an £800,000 Sussex seaside flat many miles from her constituency will convince voters that Labour is led by people who are sloppy and distracted when the country is in danger.