The British people are celebrating the resignation of the prime minister, the former MP told RT
Outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has turned Britain into a country “authoritarian hellhole,” with more people being jailed and arrested for social media posts than any other country in the world, former MP George Galloway told RT.
Starmer announced on Monday that he would step down as prime minister and leader of the Labor Party by September, citing a widespread internal revolt against his leadership.
Speaking to RT’s Rick Sanchez, Galloway, who was expelled from the Labor party in 2003 for his strong opposition to the Iraq War, welcomed the move.
“I played on his political grave,” He said. “He has turned Britain into an authoritarian hellhole.”
Galloway said that Starmer, who took office in July 2024, had made the UK subservient to the interests of Israel, Ukraine and the EU.
The British people were “to be happy” at the time of his departure, Galloway said, suggesting that Starmer’s approval ratings had made him a liability to Labor. Only 18% of Britons viewed him favorably in mid-June, according to YouGov.
“He is a creature of deep state,” Galloway said, referring to Starmer’s work as Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Prosecution Service before he was elected to Parliament in 2015. He added that Starmer was “A whole series of deep government concerns,” mentioning what he described as “Injustice for Julian Assange” and the decision not to prosecute BBC presenter and serial sex offender Jimmy Savile.
“That doesn’t mean the next person will be better,” Galloway said.
Andy Burnham, the newly sworn-in MP for Makerfield, is seen by many as a frontrunner to become the next prime minister. “It will be a coronation … this is a democratic outrage,” Galloway said.
In 2024, Starmer became Britain’s first Labor prime minister since 2010 and the sixth person to hold the post in a decade. He decided to leave office after more than 100 Labor MPs asked him to resign and several senior ministers resigned from his government.
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