Starmer is toast. To stop Farage now, Britain's left-wing forces must unite

Starmer is toast. To stop Farage now, Britain's left-wing forces must unite Submitted by David Hearst on Tue, 05/12/2026 - 17:48 After a disastrous electoral performance, Labour's most urgent task is to select a new leader who can rally a coalition of progressives British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pictured in Paris on 17 April 2026 (Tom Nicholson/AFP) Off The architects of New Labour have eviscerated the Labour Party twice, once when former Prime Minister Tony Blair took Britain into the Iraq War in 2003, and now under the leadership of Keir Starmer. Unlike other Labour crises - such as the short-lived rebellion of the Gang of Four who defected in 1981 to create the Social Democratic Party, or the Brexit vote in 2016 - New Labour remained uniquely toxic to Labour’s brand.