Keir Starmer dealt humiliating blow on GMB as star predicts Labour ‘peril’

Good Morning Britain reported from Wales, as it is predicted that the Labour Party’s 100-year run of wins in the country will come to an end with the upcoming local elections. As people get set to go to the polls on May 7, reporter Ashna Hurynag spoke to Kate Garraway from Merthyr Tydfil, indicating the polls would not sway in Labour‘s favour in what will surely be a blow to Prime minister Keir Starmer.

“So much has changed since the year 1900 when Keir Hardie (founder of the Labour Party) was elected. Much of the frustration of the Labour Party now lies in these old mining towns, and if you needed a bit of a sense of what peril could be coming down the line next week, look no further than here in Wales. So much of the frustration that we have been hearing over the past 36 hours from people has been around the affordability of day-to-day living, of public services, of the state of the NHS,” she said.

She continued: “What we have largely seen is growing anger, even disillusionment but people are desperate for hope. They’re desperate for change, and frankly, parties don’t have very long to convince them.

“At the biggest indoor market in Wales, they’re bracing for possibly the biggest political shift the country has ever known.

“For more than 100 years, Labour have won every general election here, and have run the Welsh Government since devolution began. So it is extraordinary that for the first time, voters seem to be shopping around,” she commented.

She then cut to chats with the local people in which they decried the current state of the country with one shopkeeper telling her: “People are finding it extremely difficult to pay their bills. In my shop, I’ve seen so many people who want to buy a drink, but they are unable to.”

Hurynag said: “The picture is the same in Pontypool, where industry here once thrived in making the modern world those left behind feel its former glory has faded.”

A florist told her: “They’re checking every penny. Sometimes I give it to them because they’re no money. It’s sad. I never thought Wales would be like that.”

The report comes as it Keir Starmer was hit by a nightmare poll a week before the local elections. The survey by Find Out Now puts Labour in fourth place behind the Tories, the Greens and Reform UK. Nigel Farage‘s party is on the lead on 24%, while the Greens are on 20% and the Conservatives are on 18%. Meanwhle, Labour is trailing behind with 16% in the poll of more than 3,000 people carried out on Wednesday.

Labour look set to face a bloodbath in next Thursday’s ballots for English councils, as well as the Scottish and Welsh Parliaments.