GB News row erupts as star delivers blistering four-word verdict on Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer came under fire as two guests clashed on GB News. The fierce debate began as Nile Gardiner and Dominic Moffitt discussed Donald Trump's new deal to deport "barbaric" migrants to Eswatini. The US government has sent five men who it described as "criminal illegal aliens" to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the largely secretive third-country deportation programme. Presenter Patrick Christys commended US President Donald Trump for doing the deal "relatively quickly" before pointing out that it cost significantly less than the £700m the government paid to Rwanda.

Asked what is wrong with the deal, Moffitt declared: "It's an immoral thing to do, to deport our problem to someone else's third country. He hasn't done a deal. He's said you won't have funding for aids programmes in Eswatini." He claimed it can't be called a deal if Trump has "blackmailed a nation". Snapping back, Gardiner said: "It's not blackmail. It is a deal that has been negotiated with a sovereign nation that has agreed to take these monsters and they'll lock them up in Eswatini."

Moffit interjected: "Keir Starmer has shown leadership by negotiating with countries like Vietnam to take offenders back directly to wherever they are from."

Interrupting, Gardiner raged: "Keir Starmer and leadership do not belong in the same sentence." To which Moffit replied: "Neither does Trump and moral."

"Keir Starmer is incapable of any kind of leadership," Gardiner said. "Starmer is incredibly weak." Moffit claimed the prime minister demonstrated strong leadership skills by removing the whip from MPs in the Labour Party.

Issuing a scathing verdict, Gardiner snapped: "The Labour Party is imploding and sinking faster than the Titanic."

It comes after Sir Keir suspended four Labour MPs over repeated breaches of party discipline. Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff and Rachael Maskell all had the party whip removed, all of whom voted against the government's welfare reform bill earlier this month.

Diane Abbott was also suspended as a Labour MP after claiming she had no regrets about comments made in 2023 suggesting Jewish people don't suffer racism "all their lives".

Ms Abbott suggested that people of colour experience racism differently to Irish, Jewish and Traveller communities, adding the latter groups are not subject to racism "all their lives".

She later apologised and withdrew the remarks, claiming the letter had been an initial draft that was submitted to the newspaper prematurely. However asked on Thursday whether she regrets the row that saw her suspended from the Labour Party for a year, she defiantly replied: "No, not at all."