'Utterly astonishing!' Keir Starmer's mounting pressure to resign handed scathing assessment by ex-1922 Committee Chair

Lord Brady highlighted how "remarkable" the PM's downfall has occurred just two years into his time in office.

He said: "I think the most remarkable thing is that we're far less than two years in from a general election where Keir Starmer and the Labour Party secured a massive landslide.

"Now, of course, as we know it was the famous loveless landslide; very few people actually voted for them. It was people fed up with the Conservatives and fed up with other people voting against people rather than for them."

Lord Brady declared: "But nonetheless, to have that massive majority in the House of Commons to be facing this kind of turmoil now is utterly astonishing."

The veteran Conservative figure also pointed to the four ministerial resignations, describing those who have quit as "mostly pretty junior ministers, not really legends in their own households".

He told GB News: "I've seen some pretty remarkable things go on over the 14 years I was chairman of the ’22. I’ve never seen anything quite like this.

"But if you look at the numbers, sure 92 (are) calling for him to go; it's still less than a quarter of the Parliamentary Labour Party."

Lord Brady recalled the rules of the 1922 Committee: "And if you look back to the rules that we had in the 1922 committee, if you had 15 per cent writing to the chairman of the 1922 committee calling for a confidence vote, that vote would take place.

"It happened twice. It happened once when Theresa May was prime minister, and once when Boris Johnson was prime minister."

Despite reaching that threshold proving consistently difficult, both leaders ultimately prevailed when the votes were held.

He added: "It was difficult always for anybody to get to that threshold, and even when they did, both of those confidence votes resulted in the incumbent winning, albeit not a commanding majority, but they both got about 60 per cent of the parliamentary party supporting them."

Lord Brady suggested Sir Keir may be calculating his position similarly, and that the current ministerial departures pale in comparison to the crisis that ended Boris Johnson's tenure in Downing Street.

He told GB News: "I suspect that Keir Starmer is looking at these figures and thinking it might be much the same, that he's got about a quarter bit less than a quarter of his parliamentary party publicly calling for him to go, although some of them wanted to go now, and some are quite like it to be several months in the future, perhaps when they have another candidate they might prefer available to elect.

"But he might think that that is the whole of the evident dissatisfaction with him within the Parliamentary Labour Party. So again, you've got four ministers now residing, mostly pretty junior ministers, not really legends in their own households."

Lord Brady concluded Sir Keir is likely surveying the present circumstances and judging them far less threatening than the catastrophic collapse that forced his Conservative predecessor from office.

That wave of resignations, which included figures from the top ranks of government, proved impossible for Mr Johnson to withstand.

He concluded: "Compare that to what brought Boris's time to a close when he had over 50 members of the Government, including senior cabinet ministers, resigning over a period of a day or two.

"So I think probably Keir Starmer was looking at what's going on at the moment and thinking it might be containable."

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