Labour: Jon Lansman criticises Keir Starmer

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The chairman of GB News highlighted the paradigm shift that has happened in English politics over recent years. Pointing out how well the Tories – who have been in power for 11 years – performed in comparison to Labour, Mr Neil labelled it a “watershed” moment.

The 71-year-old veteran broadcaster wrote on Twitter: “What’s happening in English politics is unique: it’s a watershed, with rules being radically rewritten, not because an insurgent party is successfully challenging an unpopular incumbent (that happens) but because a popular incumbent is savaging an unpopular opposition.”

He later tweeted commentary from the Wall Street Journal on the election results.

He said: “The Wall Street Journal commenting, unusually, on UK’s local elections: they are ‘the next step in what’s becoming a major political realignment in the world’s 5th largest economy’.”

Many Twitter users agreed about the woeful state of the Labour Party.

One wrote: “If there were to be a general election tomorrow, I have no idea which party would become the opposition. Not sure that it would be Labour.”

Another said: “The Tories right now represent hope and opportunity. They promote optimism and spirit, pride in you, and your nation. Positivity. Much needed unity.

“Labour meantime are the party of division and victimhood. They have zero feel good factor (sic).”

A third wrote: “The Labour Party should have picked this up in the early 2000s, when Mosaic consumer software (which obsessed politicians) was already picking up fragility of Labour heartland vote.

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“And Blair, Byers, Millburn, Miliband, Mandelson were all North East MPs.”

With the vast majority of England’s election results announced, the Conservatives have gained control of 12 councils and the Labour has lost control of seven.

Their sweep across traditional Labour heartlands in the north-eastern England has continued unabated.

One notable loss for Labour was Durham County Council, which it has run since 1925, losing 15 seats as the Tories took 14.

This follows the Conservatives winning the Hartlepool parliamentary by-election and receiving 73 percent of the vote in the Tees Valley mayoral election.

Elsewhere, Labour has kept hold of its mayoralties in London and Greater Manchester.

Mr Starmer said immediately after the results that he took “full responsibility” for the failures.

But he was later accused of “scapegoating” deputy leader Angela Rayner for sacking her.

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