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‘Super majority’ risks 'one-party socialist state with horrific consequences'

13 June 2024 , 07:44
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Watch Sir Keir be grilled on trust in our video clip above
Watch Sir Keir be grilled on trust in our video clip above

A KEIR Starmer super-majority would leave Britain “sleepwalking into a one-party socialist state”, a former minister blasted.

Ex-Attorney General Sir Geoffrey Cox warned handing Labour a crushing victory on July 4 would give self-described socialist Sir Keir “untrammelled power” to do whatever he wants.

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A Sir Keir Starmer 'super majority' could leave the UK close to a "one-party socialist state"
Starmer faced his toughest grilling yet and stuttered at times on Sky News
Starmer faced his toughest grilling yet and stuttered at times on Sky News

Ex-Tory MP Sir Geoffrey told the BBC: “If you believe the polls... we are sleepwalking into a one-party socialist state.

“The consequences would be horrific, not just for the Conservative Party and for the country, but also for Labour because having an opposition is important.”

"We would be facing a government with untrammelled power

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“And it's a wake-up call. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. It needn't happen. 

“We've got three weeks to go, and we have to fight with every fibre of our beings to prevent it."

It comes as Starmer was grilled on if voters could trust him in a Sky News leaders special, before stammering as he tried to shoot down claims he was “stiff” and “robotic”.

The Labour chief was also pinned down on his prior support for Jeremy Corbyn, after we revealed footage of him praising the ex-leader's manifesto despite using it as a slur against the Conservatives.

He revealed: "I was certain that we would lose the 2019 election. I did campaign for Labour, of course I did.

"I wanted good colleagues returned into the Labour Party."

In a snap poll published straight after the end of the interviews, Keir came out on top with 64 per cent of viewers saying he performed better compared to 36 per cent who backed PM Rishi Sunak.

The latest warning followed two senior Tories speaking out against the prospect of a Starmer supermajority larger than Tony Blair’s 179-seat landslide in 1997.

Rising star Miriam Cates – whose Penistone seat is now a Labour target – told our Never Mind The Ballots show that electing Sir Keir with more than 400 MPs would make him Blair “on steroids”.

She blasted: "Very, very large majorities are not necessarily good for democracy.”

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"People can vote how they want to vote, and they should do – it's completely up to them.

“They shouldn't be frightened by the prospect of one party having a particular majority when they go to the polls.

“I do think it's a fair warning, particularly to Nigel Farage, actually, that if we had an enormous Labour majority, they would embed all sorts of things in our political system, in our constitution like Blair did.

And Foreign Secretary Grant Shapps added: "You want to make sure that in this next government, whoever forms it, that there's a proper system of accountability.

“You don't want to have somebody receive a super majority.

“And in this case, of course, the concern would be that if Keir Starmer were to go into No.10 and that power was in some way unchecked.

Yesterday some critics said the remarks amounted to a quiet admission that the Tories were too far behind in the polls to pull off a miracle comeback win.

But Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron today declared that talking about opinion polls is “time wasted” – insisting the only poll that matters will be on July 4.

He told Times Radio: “I remember fighting the election in 2015 and people said I didn’t have a chance.

"And we were behind in the polls and we kept going and we had a clear plan, we had a strong team, and we came through and won the election.

“So anything is possible.

“During elections, time spent talking about opinion polls is just time completely wasted because you don’t know whether they are right.

"I don’t know whether they are right and we will find out in 21 days.”

“I believe anything can happen.”

Ex-Attorney General Sir Geoffrey Cox warned a Starmer landslide would give him 'untrammelled power'
Ex-Attorney General Sir Geoffrey Cox warned a Starmer landslide would give him 'untrammelled power'Credit: PA:Press Association

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