Trump Says British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Will Resign

President Donald Trump said on June 21 that embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will step down.

“Keir Starmer will resign as Prime Minister of The United Kingdom,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on June 21. “He failed badly on two very important subjects—immigration and energy (open North Sea oil!). I wish him well!”

Trump’s post comes on the heels of Britain’s Observer newspaper suggesting that Starmer was expected to resign on June 22.

Starmer has not officially made an announcement.

The Epoch Times reached out to the British leader for comment but did not hear back by publication time.

The prime minister has faced threats to his position in the past few months, most recently when rival Andy Burnham won a seat in parliament on June 19, which could allow him to formally make efforts to oust Starmer as Labour leader and UK prime minister.

Starmer said on June 19 that he would not “walk away” from his post if Burnham challenged him.

But support for Starmer’s party has dropped in the two years since he won a landslide election in 2024.

Nearly a quarter of lawmakers in the Labour Party called on him to quit after their party suffered the most local election losses of any governing party in more than three decades. The party lost English local elections and ​parliamentary votes in Scotland and Wales.

Starmer promised to “deliver change,” but there are growing fears in his party that the prime minister may not be able to defeat Nigel Farage from the Reform UK party in a future election.

Farage commented on Trump’s June 21 social media post, which also accused Starmer of failing on immigration and energy policies.

“The list is longer than that!” Farage said on X. 

The leader of Reform UK previously criticized Starmer’s immigration policies; although, last spring, the prime minister promised to cut net migration to Britain.

Farage has gained support for his strict immigration proposals, which include banning foreign nationals from living in government-subsidized homes.

“The British people paid for these homes, should be housed in them, and newcomers will have to be patient as they earn their way in,” Farage wrote in a Substack on June 14.

Reuters contributed to this report.