Esther McVey makes 4-word prediction about Keir Starmer's future

Keir Starmer is facing open "warfare" in the Labour Party and his "staggering competence" means he will be gone soon. Former Cabinet minister Esther McVey said it is now only a matter of time before the Prime Minister is out of a job. Speaking to the Daily Expresso, our weekday news show on YouTube, said Sir Keir has been "scurrying around" parliament trying to save his political career but it is too late.

McVey said: "Whether it's a day, whether it's a week, whether it's a couple of months, he is just unable to lead that party.

"They can't really get anything right. And that is the problem. He tried to be all things to all people.

"He tried to do some stuff for the Blair right, do stuff for the Corbynisters, do stuff for the trade unions.

"And he has done absolutely nothing and he is in a corner."

McVey accused the Prime Minister of misleading the House of Commons about what he knew when about Lord Mandelson's links to paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

She said: "To me, it's like the worst days of Theresa May before she went, and also the worst days of Boris Johnson before he went.

"He never came into Parliament, which he should have done, to address how he'd basically misled, and I will say misled, the house over Mandelson.

"He let a junior minister take the heat for that. And he was scurrying round the tea room on Monday, never been seen in the tea room before, to try and speak to people, to try and stop

all of the operations to oust him within the tea room. The man is gone."

McVey urged the Prime Minister to follow US President Donald Trump's lead and be more "pro-British" after the US President lavished praise on the UK during his state visit.

McVey said: "Trump was so pro British. I thought it was fabulous. Pro the royal family. Pro our spirit, what Britain was all about.

"If only Starmer could be a little bit more like that. So he's not for the country, he's not for the royal family. He's an internationalist. So actually, I thought Trump could teach him a lesson or two."