{"id":223665,"date":"2025-06-29T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223665\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T09:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T09:42:10","slug":"keir-starmer-gone-in-a-year-guess-whos-lining-up-to-replace-him-personal-finance-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223665\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Keir Starmer gone in a year\u2019 \u2013 guess who\u2019s lining up to replace him | Personal Finance | Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prime Minister is lurching from U-turn to U-turn, his authority draining by the day<\/a>. First came the scrapped winter fuel payment<\/a> cut. Then the binned \u00a35billion raid on disability benefits. Now, plans to hammer farmers with inheritance tax are under fire, with more than 40 Labour MPs threatening open rebellion.<\/p>\n

Chancellor Rachel Reeves<\/a>\u2019s attack on wealthy \u201cnon-doms\u201d is set to cost more in lost tax than it raises, as its intended targets flee. Meanwhile, under pressure from the Left, Starmer looks poised to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite pledging to keep it just weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Even Labour\u2019s supposed immigration crackdown is faltering, with Starmer forced to apologise for branding Britain \u201can island of strangers\u201d. His U-turn on grooming gangs already looks half-hearted.<\/p>\n

Reeves, meanwhile, is losing control of the public finances and will almost certainly hike taxes again in her next Budget<\/a>. Backbenchers have had enough.<\/p>\n

After a bruising week of revolt, one senior Labour figure reportedly described the situation as \u201can absolute s—show.\u201d<\/p>\n

Talk of a leadership challenge is no longer whispered in corridors. It\u2019s being said out loud.<\/p>\n

Labour MPs aren\u2019t the only ones ready to see the back of Starmer. So are voters. A new Find Out Now poll shows more than six in 10 want him gone. Barely one in four think he\u2019ll make it to the next election.<\/p>\n

If the rebels get their way, Starmer could soon be forced into the biggest U-turn of all. Out of Number 10.<\/p>\n

So who\u2019s waiting in the wings?<\/p>\n

According to The Mail on Sunday, the answer to Labour\u2019s mounting woes could be Angela Rayner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Deputy Prime Minister is quietly gathering support, with allies now openly predicting that a \u201cgravely wounded\u201d Starmer won\u2019t last the year.<\/p>\n

Rayner is said to top the list of potential successors among grassroots members and union bosses. While some prefer Andy Burnham, he\u2019s not an MP.<\/p>\n

Blairites like Wes Streeting don\u2019t stand a chance as the left takes back control of the party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rayner insists she isn\u2019t interested. But as one ally put it: \u201cThat\u2019s what she would say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Backers want to frame Rayner as a plain-speaking, working-class antidote to Starmer\u2019s wooden technocrat, and a streetwise challenger to Nigel Farage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you think things are bad now, just wait.<\/p>\n

Rayner is determined to push through her flagship Employment Rights Bill, a union-pleasing package of radical reforms that could blow another hole in Britain\u2019s already tattered economy.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s due this autumn, just as businesses are reeling from Labour\u2019s \u00a325billion national insurance hike, which has already cost 275,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just for starters.<\/p>\n

Her bill will pile on another \u00a35billion in annual costs, with analysts warning it could destroy a further 50,000 jobs.<\/p>\n

It scraps key trade union laws, bans zero-hour contracts, boosts redundancy rights, and lets ministers drag firms through employment tribunals<\/a>, even without a formal complaint.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a throwback to the 1970s, with union barons back in charge.<\/p>\n

The Tories<\/a> warn it could trigger a \u00a31billion tax hike as shrinking profits slash corporation tax receipts.<\/p>\n

But Labour MPs and activists will love it. They\u2019ve dreamed of reversing Margaret Thatcher\u2019s 1980s trade union reforms for decades. With Rayner in No.10 and a thumping majority behind her, that dream could become a dangerous reality.<\/p>\n

We may not miss Keir Starmer<\/a>. But we’ll hate what follows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Prime Minister is lurching from U-turn to U-turn, his authority draining by the day. First came the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9311,748,3374,88299,393,4884,807,88298,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-223665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-angela-rayner","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-employment","11":"tag-employment-rights-bill","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-labour-leadership-challenge","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-northern-ireland","18":"tag-scotland","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114766003768343498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}