The Scottish National Party has criticised Keir Starmer and the Labour government amid continuing political difficulties at Westminster.
The comments came from newly elected SNP Westminster leader Dave Doogan and SNP Depute Leader Keith Brown.
Doogan said:
“Keir Starmer has lost the confidence of voters and his own MPs.
“It is clear there is no coming back for him and he should now do the honourable thing and resign.
“This can’t go on any longer.
“At a time when families are facing a cost of living emergency, it’s a disgrace that the Labour government has done nothing to help hard pressed households and is, instead, completely distracted by bitter infighting and the Prime Minister’s futile attempts to save his own skin.
“Ahead of the King’s Speech, all focus should be on securing the urgent package of financial support that families desperately need to tackle the cost of living, including removing VAT from fuel and introducing a Household Energy Price Cap, but instead Westminster is, once again, consumed by chaos and only talking to itself.
“We now have the absurd spectacle of a Prime Minister who is desperately hiding from his own ministers and MPs, and refusing to see them, so they can’t tell him to resign.
“While Keir Starmer’s position is clearly untenable, the lesson from the past decade is that no matter how many times Westminster swaps Prime Ministers nothing ever changes and families in Scotland always lose out.
“The SNP isn’t interested in this Westminster game of musical chairs.
“They are all as bad as each other.
“The only way Scotland will secure real change from the constant crisis of Westminster control is through independence.”
Brown said:
“The Labour Party promised change and delivered more of the same.
“This is yet another Westminster government consumed by chaos which is now the permanent pattern on that place.
“Broken, Brexit Britain is in terminal decline lurching from scandal to scandal and the question is no longer will Keir Starmer go?
“The question is when will Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland go.
“Through a fresh start with independence, Scotland can escape the chaos and build a wealthier and fairer Scotland anew that’s exactly why we have more MSPs from pro independence parties than ever before.”
