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The Labour government has been torn apart in a furious rant on TalkTV. Retired Scotland Yard Detective Chief Inspector Mike Neville appeared on TalkTV with Mark Dolan, where he suggested that the Labour Party has betrayed the working class. Neville explained that he would naturally be expected to support Labour, noting that his hardworking grandparents were Labour voters and his father even served as a councillor for the party.

However, he went on to accuse the government of "buying votes and ruining lives." He told the presenter: "When I look at how my grandparents were - hardworking people, smart people, they were Labour voters. My father was a Labour councillor. I should be for the Labour Party. I came from a one-parent family and these ideas are right.

"But you've got a whole Labour Party who feel much more comfortable at an Islington dinner party than in a Bolton chip shop and that's where it's gone wrong."

Dolan argued that in his view, the Labour Party and the wider progressive left are defined by a set of policies and beliefs, declaring: "Net zero, 100 genders, everyone in Britain is racist, welfare state out of control, open borders. This is the mantra of the progressive left."

Neville agreed: "That's the wickedness of it. They buy votes by giving out welfare to working class communities. They buy votes and ruin lives."

It comes after Keir Starmer insisted he will not resign, despite calls from dozens of Labour MPs in the wake of the party's local election mauling.

Speaking in south London on Saturday (May 9) Sir Keir said: "I'm not going to walk away from this; that would plunge the country into chaos. But that doesn't mean we don't need to respond. It doesn't mean we don't need to rebuild. It doesn't mean that we don't need to set out the path ahead. That's what I'm going to do in the coming days."

He said Labour needed to set out a clearer message of hope and a vision for the future, particularly to appeal to young people, arguing that "the hope wasn't there enough in the first two years of this government".

He added: "I will be setting out those arguments, but more than anything, setting out with clarity the values and convictions that drive me."

Labour lost more than 1,000 councillors in Thursday's ballots, with Reform UK making huge gains in the Red Wall.