All anyone's looking at is whether Keir Starmer can survive a little bit longer, says Jacob Rees-Mogg

WATCH: Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers his verdict on Keir Starmer's downfall

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Jacob Rees-Mogg

By Jacob Rees-Mogg


Published: 12/05/2026

- 21:04

'A failed Prime Minister who hangs on because as yet, nobody has the gumption to challenge him'

It's time for nursery rhyme.

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And all the King's horses and all the King's men couldn't put Sir Keir Starmer back together again.


Because that's what we're going to get tomorrow.

It will be the fine panoply of state, the state regalia. The Crown gets a carriage of its own, the cup of maintenance will be carried, and the sword of state, not by Penny Mordaunt this time, will be brought out of storage.

The heralds will be on parade in their fine tabard. All the glories of the United Kingdom will be on display.

And the poor old calf that died to make the vellum on which the speech will be written has died in vain, because whatever's in that speech doesn't matter.

All anyone's looking at is can Sir Keir Starmer survive for a little bit longer, and it seems to me that he is now in a position where he does not command a majority in the House of Commons.

He has lost so many MPs, you deduct that from the about 400 that Labour has to start with. You're getting down well below the 325 that you need to command a majority.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

Jacob Rees-Mogg delivers his verdict on Keir Starmer's downfall

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He is losing his constitutional base to be in office, and he's certainly not in power.

But take the resignation of Jess Phillips. I know Jess Phillips. I hope she won't be too embarrassed if I say I think of her as a friend, but her resignation, it was excoriating.

She wrote: "Over a year ago, I presented solutions long worked out by brilliant civil servants that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of themselves.

"We could make this possible on every phone and device in the country. We could stop this abuse, but it's taken me to year to get to a degree to even threaten, to legislate, not legislate, just threaten."

She then goes on to say: "An announcement was meant to come in March, then June", and she didn't believe that.

Anyway, it's a Government that can't make decisions, that can't get the job done, and the responsibility lies with the Prime Minister.

A failed Prime Minister who hangs on because as yet, nobody has the gumption to challenge him.

But will that change in the hours ahead?