SIR KEIR STARMER said today that he will still be prime minister this time next year despite dire poll ratings and predictions that his party will be battered in local elections in May.  

Claiming that frequent leadership changes are not in the “national interest,” Sir Keir vowed in 2026 to take on his highest polling adversary, Reform UK.

The Prime Minister told BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that he was “confident” about this year, which he said will be when Brits will start to feel “positive change.”

Sir Keir dismissed any suggestion that he was a complacent leader, after a 2025 marked by sluggish economic growth, mutinous backbenchers and rumours of contest for the Labour leadership.

He said: “I will be sitting in this seat by 2027.

“Under the last government, we saw constant chopping and changing of leadership, of teams, it caused utter chaos, utter chaos, and it’s among the reasons that the Tories were booted out so effectively at the last election.

“Nobody wants to go back to that. It’s not in our national interest. We know from that evidence what happens if you go down that chaotic path, and I’m not going to take us back to that kind of chaos.”

Seemingly acknowledging criticism of his premiership, Sir Keir insisted he would “rise above” negative commentary and claimed he would focus on making a “material difference” to people’s lives.

He added that he believed his party would be re-elected in the next general election against a “very right-wing proposition” in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party.

“Because my strong view is it’ll be a Labour government up against a very right-wing proposition in Reform,” he added. 

“And that Reform proposition will be a proposition of toxic divide of this country.”

A Momentum spokesperson told the Star: “Starmer insists he will be around for a while but the reality is that with living standards of most people set to stagnate and Starmer having no vision to transform society, it is unsurprising that Labour are languishing in the polls and Starmer is on the rocks.

“To have a chance of success, Labour must tax the rich, cast aside the Conservative fiscal policy which is preventing proper investment, and end the hikes to military spending that will take funding out of public services.”