End Of The Keir Show: How Senior Labour Figures Now Believe Starmer Is Already Toast

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68fb724c180000abe9fe4234.jpg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Time appears to be running out for Keir Starmer." data-caption="Time appears to be running out for Keir Starmer." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="Peter Nicholls via Getty Images" />Time appears to be running out for Keir Starmer.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/morgan-mcsweeney/">Morgan McSweeney</a>, prime minister <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/keir-starmer/">Keir Starmer’s</a> most trusted adviser, was sent out to bat for his boss this week.</p><p>The No.10 chief of staff went to committee room 4A in the House of Lords to face <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/labour-party/">Labour </a>peers, field their questions and explain how he and the PM plan to dig the government out of the deep hole in which it finds itself.</p><p>More than 80 of them turned up, including party grandees like former leader Neil Kinnock, George Robertson and Margaret Hodge.</p><p>As one peer present pointed out to HuffPost UK, they are not generally the toughest of crowds.</p><p>“We listen to what people have to say and politely applaud afterwards,” he said. “It’s not exactly Friday night at the Glasgow Empire.”</p><p>Nevertheless, it did not go well for McSweeney or, by extension, Keir Starmer.</p><p>One peer said: “It was like a car crash in slow motion. If you’re going to come down from No.10 to see us, you need to come out fighting, say this is the mess we inherited, this is what’s going wrong and this is how we’re going to fix it.</p><p>“But t<span style="font-weight:400">here was no energy, no ideas and he didn’t have any an