Martin Daubney was forced to shut down the defence of the Labour Government by an ex-candidate, after he denied the party is facing a "nightmare" amid their cabinet reshuffle.
Speaking to GB News, Kevin Craig clashed with the GB News presenter as he claimed a reshuffle was "already on the cards" to help boost the party's popularity ratings.
Following the resignation of Angela Rayner as Deputy Prime Minister earlier today, Keir Starmer has begun a major cabinet reshuffle.
David Lammy has been appointed as Ms Rayner's replacement, with Yvette Cooper moving to Foreign Secretary and Shabana Mahmood taking her position as Home Secretary.
Martin Daubney shut down Kevin Craig's defence of Labour after taking issue with Martin's damning assessment of the Government
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As Mr Craig shook his head at Martin's verdict of the state of the Government, the GB News host asked: "You were shaking your head there when I was saying this is an unmitigated disaster for the Labour Party, tell me why I'm wrong? It seems like an awful day. Why am I wrong?"
Mr Craig hit back: "One thing really important that you didn't say in going with the recommendation of the independent adviser, taking a really difficult decision and accepting that Angela Rayner has to go, this is what people voted for in Keir Starmer under the Tories.
"Some of it's very complimentary towards Angela, but at the end of the day, no matter about intentions, she didn't pay the tax due.
"As a Housing minister, local Government lead, it can't happen, and this is really painful for Keir Starmer, but he knows one of the reasons Labour's got this big but thin majority is people had had enough of Tory sleaze, and that's why, unfortunately, this decision had to happen."
He added: "It's not a nightmare, Martin. A reshuffle was already coming because the Labour Government in the polls is not where it could and should be, and of course, Starmer is going to change it up."
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| GB NEWSInterjecting Mr Craig's claim on Labour polling, Martin argued: "Not where it could be? You could probably throw the ratings off the white cliffs of Dover!
"I know it's an absolutely spectacular collapse, the likes of which we've never seen. And I put it to you that this began very early on. Angela Rayner has gone, she had to go, she completely and utterly had to go.
"But right from the early days, it was 'free gear Keir', it was cronyism, we've seen it from the very beginning. From the very first weeks of this Government, it's been non-stop nonsense."
Challenging Martin's argument, Mr Craig stated: "No, that's a characterisation and I'm going to challenge that. If you look at the resignations that have been in this Government, even the slightest whiff, people were sacked as ministers at the suspicion or the look of something.
Martin and Mr Craig clashed over Labour's popularity following Angela Rayner's departure
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"It's not about Covid fast lanes and corruption and bungs, it's nowhere near. That's how desperate Keir Starmer is to have a different kind of politics, and it is fair to say we've got a different kind of politics."
Martin interjected again, stating: "Yeah, we've got chaos!
"The problem with the Labour Party, you've got all your eggs in the NHS basket, it's been totally overtaken by the small boats chaos, by the immigration nightmare that's facing the country, by the dire state of the economy precipitated by the Chancellor, who we hear is one of the people who survived the reshuffle. Maybe that's a mistake."
As Mr Craig asked Britons to "let the country judge us after five years, not one year", Martin hit back: "I don't know if that's possible at the moment.
"It's not possible because we live in a very, very fast-moving world, and it's fast-moving down a cliff."