Kemi LAYS INTO Labour leadership contenders as Starmer faces down REBELS in Parliament

The rest of this offering in the King's Speech, Mr Speaker, makes it clear that they have learnt no lessons from their mistakes in government so far.All we have is a load of re -announced policies.Hounding our brave veterans through the courts.Legislating for digital ID, a policy they told us they dropped.Banning trail hunting, just more class war that makes no one's life better.Scrapping NHS England, something the Prime Minister announced 14 months ago.

But then I suppose the Health Secretary has been a bit distracted lately, hasn't he?He's chuntering now.Why don't you just do your job?Do your job.Even worse, Mr Speaker, even worse, Mr Speaker, is what isn't in the gracious speech.There's no point in him giving me dirty looks.

We all know what he's been up to.You get a quarter of your MPs to publicly back you, the game is up.And so the starting gun for the later leadership contest has been fired.So let's have a look at the runners and riders.We have the former Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Stefika, former Deputy Prime Minister, who has given up vaping.She's not here.

She's given up vaping, but still hasn't paid her taxes.We have the Health Secretary who accidentally sent his takeover plans to number 10, almost as incompetent as leaving them on the photocopier.the Mayor of Manchester, a self -proclaimed winner who has twice failed to win the Labour leadership, including against the Member for Islington North.As one Labour MP said about all the candidatesin this race, and I quote, we have to face up to the fact every single one of them is, I apologise Mr Speaker, F star star star star star star useless.I do feel sorry for the poor Labour MPs who will now be subjected to months of peacocking by leadership candidates while the country is not being governed.

I have some advice for whichever of them eventually takes over.Getting to number 10 is not an award for being in a game show.This is not strictly come dancing.And despite appearances, it's not traitors either.If you are a housing secretary who can't work out her housing taxes, if you're a health secretary who can only cut waiting lists by deleting names from the waiting list, if you are Gordon Brown's former chief secretary to the Treasury and you think the bond markets are a hoax, I can assure you that being prime minister is going to be a lot tougher.Too many have failed because they thought winning an election or a leadership contest was the success.

It is not.The work doesn't end when you get the job, that's when it starts.absolutely preposterous that the government is here laying out a programme as its ministers are resigning and a large proportion of the party is saying that the Prime Minister needs to go.The whole thing is totally illogical.Either Labour MPs agree with this agenda, in which case why are they trying to get rid of the Prime Minister, or they don't agree with this agenda, in which case what on earth are we all doing here?