Robert Jenrick brands Keir Starmer ‘dead man walking’ as Nigel Farage prepares to set out Reform UK’s top team

He also explained that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is preparing his own "top team" and will be setting out the next phase for the party in just hours.

He told GB News: "Well, this is a Government that is collapsing before our very eyes. The Government is in open revolt against the Prime Minister, who now has no authority whatsoever.

"And what are people thinking as they watch this Government turn in on itself so quickly, just like the last Conservative Government did?

"People are worried about their bills, their energy prices, jobs going, immigration continuing to be out of control, crime, town centres being hollowed out all the challenges that the country faces. And yet this Government is just focused on itself, on a failed Prime Minister who’s waiting to be shown the exit.

"We’ve got to move forward beyond this, because the public deserves something so much better than having Government after Government collapse into chaos before their very eyes."

He added: "Starmer looks like he’s on the way out. We’re going to have a messy, chaotic Labour leadership contest that’s going to waste precious time when the country faces all of these challenges.

"And then no doubt he’ll be replaced by somebody who is just as inept, just as out of touch as he was whether that’s Angela Rayner or Wes Streeting.

"Look, it’s not for me to speculate. All I can say is that I’ve just spent the weekend in my constituency in Newark, and the public are not talking about Peter Mandelson.

"They knew he was a bad man and that he shouldn’t have been made a premier ambassador in Washington. They just want a Government that’s going to grip the country’s challenges.

"They’re sick of the country being in decline like it is at the moment, and they want to move forward and actually get this country back onto its feet again with good jobs, with bills coming down, with immigration finally being tackled.

"And that is why Reform, the party that I’ve joined, is now focused on how we prepare for Government because this could well lead to an early general election.

"Later today in Birmingham, Nigel is going to be setting out how we’re going to start selecting candidates for the general election: good, talented people of stature and integrity.

"How are we going to build the top team so that if we get into Government, we can actually tackle these big challenges get those good jobs, get the economy going again, finally stop the small boats, no messing around.

"And how can we have detailed, credible, comprehensive plans so that the public can have faith in us that it’s not going to be just the same failure as this Government has been and frankly, as the last Conservative Government was as well."

GB News host Dawn Neesom asked: "So are we going to hear details of who Reform’s cabinet are going to be this afternoon? Because you are up for Chancellor but as was Zia Yusuf at one point?"

He responded: "Well, you’re going to have to wait and see. Nigel is going to do a speech in Birmingham and he’s going to set out the next steps including, most importantly, that we’re going to make a big offer to the country to come and be a Reform candidate.

"Yes, it’s important to have some people with experience people like myself who chose to leave the old political parties and join something new, exciting and fresh.

"But actually, we really want business people, tradesmen, farmers, veterans, teachers, doctors, people who’ve run prisons well or great hospitals, really good headteachers.

"We want people from outside politics, frankly, people who’ve been shunned by the two old failed political parties to come forward, stand for Reform and help us to build a very different political party at the next general election.

"That election may not now be in 2029. You can easily see a general election happening next year, or even sooner, as this failed Starmer administration tips into one led by Angela Rayner or whoever it might be and then collapses into failure very quickly.

"So that’s going to be the primary task.

"Nigel will be setting out the next steps today, and he’ll be setting out who his top team will be in the coming days."