Michelle Dewberry hit out at Keir Starmer as she opened up on her month long hospital stay during the Covid lockdown. She said "I know in my life I was hospitalised for a month. I wasn't allowed a single solitary visitor in hospital for that month."
Keir Starmer is facing accusations of a lockdown breach after he was visited at Labour Party HQ by voice coach Leonie Mellinger on Christmas Eve of 2020. New book "Get In" written by journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund states that Mellinger was granted permission to travel as a "key worker".
Michelle criticised Starmer for his meeting and said "People, including Keir Starmer were making out that if we saw anyone, we'd be practically killing each other and so on and so forth. So most people followed those rules, having been terrified by the likes of Keir Starmer."
The Prime Minister has faced calls to resign if he is found guilty of breaching Covid lockdown rules.
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She went on to accuse the Prime Minister of hypocrisy saying "To find out that actually people were bending and stretching and cajoling rules to to accommodate so-called work meetings. It's so offensive to people."
Labour MP Barry Gardiner leapt to Starmer's defence saying "I think it's for Keir Starmer, obviously, to to explain why it was felt that this was right. My view is it's a work meeting. If it had been going on for what you say two years beforehand, in any event that shows that it was a consistent pattern of his work programme. So I would give them the benefit of the doubt."
Keir Starmer has refuted any suggestion of a rule breach and said "Of course not," when asked directly about the allegations, adding that "all the rules were followed at all times."
The latest scandal follows a chaotic first six months for the PM.
From cutting the winter fuel allowance for millions of pensioners to sparking a revolt from farmers over the inheritance tax changes. Then there was"wardrobe-gate" and his handling of the Southport killings.
Speaking to GB News, Britain's top polling analyst John Curtice says the mood music against the Government is bad even by historical standards.
"The closestto a government's supportfalling as rapidly is probably 1979," he says, referring to Labour's decisive defeat in the General Election of that year, which was driven by economic turmoil, industrial unrest (the infamous Winter of Discontent) and a shift in public mood against the party.
According to latest YouGov polls 40% of Britons believe Keir Starmer should stand down with only 36% saying he should remain.
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