The SNP has said that it will table an amendment to the king’s speech proposing no confidence in Keir Starmer. Explaining the party’s tactic, Dave Doogan, the new SNP leader at Westminster, said:
This farce has to end now, so parliament can focus on the issues that really matter.
It’s clear the only way that can happen is for Keir Starmer to go.
He has lost the confidence of voters and his own MPs, and there’s no coming back from that. The Labour party must stop dragging this crisis out and put an end to it now.
If the Labour cabinet ministers don’t have the decency to do the right thing – then parliament must.
Unless they put an end to this chaos now, the SNP will table a motion of no confidence in Keir Starmer to draw things to a close.
There is very little chance of the SNP amendment being passed, assuming it does get put to a vote. Almost 100 Labour MPs have called for Starmer to go, and if all of them were to vote with the opposition for a no confidence motion, it would pass.
But a confidence motion normally brings out party loyalty among MPs. While many Labour MPs would like Starmer to go, almost none of them would like that to happen as part of an SNP/Tory parliamentary stunt.
