A GB News presenter tore apart Sir Keir Starmer after gruelling ‘reset’ speech (Image: Getty Images)
GB News presenter Katherine Forster put Sir Keir Starmer in his place minutes after his lifeline speech to the nation. On Monday morning (May 11), the nation waited with bated breath for the Labour leader’s speech to help reset his premiership and stave off a leadership challenge. It comes after a disastrous result in the local elections, during which several Labour MPs called for him to step down.
In his passionate speech, the Labour leader vowed to prove his “doubters” wrong as he fought back calls for him to quit. The Prime Minister said his party would “be better and do better” as he took responsibility for Labour’s electoral mauling across the UK last week.
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After his telling speech, he turned to the world’s press for questions, where the political broadcaster addressed him personally. She declared: “Prime Minister, the Labour party was founded to represent the working class, many of whom voted for Brexit because they felt left behind.
“You’ve said yourself that the status quo is not working, but you’re standing here in London, and you’re promising more Europe. You lost so much of your core voters, including the red wall in Wales and Scotland, because working-class communities feel that the Labour party has abandoned them and that you don’t get it. Are they wrong?”
The stuttering politician responded to her comments by calling out Nigel Farage‘s failures in office. He argued: “I reminded everyone what Nigel Farage said, because that was the promise he made to the country.
“He said that we’d be stronger, that we’d be richer, that we’d have lots of money for the NHS, that immigration would come down, and it all proved to be false, and he doesn’t take any responsibility. He’s not going back to the country now, saying it was a good thing, you’ve all benefited.
The presenter asked the Starmer if Labour had ‘abandoned the working-class’ (Image: GB News)
“He’ll talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit.” After the Prime Minister left the conference, Ellie Costello and Alex Armstrong welcomed the chief political correspondent back onto the show to analyse his speech.
She chuckled: “He didn’t answer my question. He got a lot of cheers here, with a clearly handpicked crowd of supporters, apart from members of the press, who were not cheering at all. His central message is: I get it. Incremental steps are not enough; the status quo is broken, and we’re going to bring change.
“So much of this was about Europe too, saying that Brexit had made us poorer, saying that Nigel Farage had missold it, calling him a grifter and a chancer. But I asked the Prime Minister if Labour had abandoned the working-class, and the answer he gave was all about Brexit and Nigel Farage and how bad it had been for the country, which was not what I was asking about.
“I think there is a real fundamental problem because when you look at the working-class communities in Wales, in Scotland, in the red wall, in Manchester, in Bradford, in so many places that have voted Labour for decades, because they feel that the Labour party is no longer for them.”
She went on to add that the most revealing comment from the Labour leader was when he admitted: “I’m not sure that they believe that we care.” It didn’t take long for viewers to flock to X – formerly known as Twitter – to voice their concerns about the Labour leader online.
One user penned: “Keir Starmer facing scrutiny after a reset speech highlights the importance of clarity and accountability in leadership communication. Public confidence depends not just on messaging but on the ability to directly address concerns.”
Another agreed: “Sounds like a typical political interview moment, questions get asked, but answers sometimes go in a different direction.” A third quipped: “Shock! Have you ever seen the PMQs?”