Keir Starmer is “more hated than Maggie Thatcher in Sunderland”, a local caulker burner has claimed on GB News.

Since his landslide election victory last year, the Labour Prime Minister has faced a tumultuous time in office, and now Gary McDonald has joined the chorus of growing dissatisfaction.

He told Martin Daubney: “Not much has improved over the last year. The councillors, controlled by Labour, they’re not listening. I’m a Labour bloke as well.

“They’re not listening to the vast majority of people. They’re not racist. It’s not about colour, creed or religion. It’s about people coming illegally to this country.

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“We can’t even look after our own homeless. It’s not racist, it’s just common sense. Enough is enough.

“We cannot keep doing this. You’re forking out so much money and cutting everything we’ve paid into and are entitled to. You’re giving it to people who are not entitled to it.

“I never thought in a place like Sunderland a Labour Prime Minister would be more hated than Maggie Thatcher.”

He continued: “I never thought I would hear that in my town. Sunderland is so Labour but he is more disliked than Maggie Thatcher ever was.

“I’ve heard old school Labour blokes say ‘I wish we had someone as strong as Maggie Thatcher’.

“He was voted in, they were all voted in, to listen and pay attention to the vast majority and they are not.”

A year on from civil unrest across Britain sparked by the killings of three girls in Southport, Labour is facing a fight to regain trust.

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner issued a stark warning in the final cabinet warning before recess about immigration, which she says is exerting a “profound impact” on British society amid fears of more unrest.

GB NEWS | Martin Daubney was speaking to locals in Sunderland

Rayner emphasised that ministers must recognise "the real concerns that people have" regarding migration levels.

Her intervention follows clashes outside an Essex hotel where asylum seekers were housed, after one resident was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage girl.

The deputy PM's remarks come as Downing Street declined to confirm whether Starmer anticipated another wave of riots similar to those that erupted across Britain last summer.

Those disturbances followed false online claims that the Southport attacker had arrived via small boat.

Rayner outlined multiple factors straining community cohesion across Britain, including economic instability, rapid industrial decline, technological shifts, and the increasing isolation caused by excessive online activity.

She highlighted that trust in public institutions had deteriorated significantly, contributing to societal tensions.