A NEW AI video mocking Keir Starmer has surfaced online – depicting him and Morgan McSweeney clinging onto a piece of driftwood in the aftermath of the Titanic crash.
The video, created by online pranksters, was widely shared on social media after McSweeney announced his resignation today.
The Downing Street chief of staff fell on his sword amid demands for him to go from angry Labour MPs.
Mr McSweeney advised the PM to appoint Lord Mandelson as US Ambassador despite his well-known relationship with paedo Epstein.
His resignation will be viewed as a last-gasp attempt to save Sir Keir’s premiership that has been plunged into turmoil in recent weeks.
In his resignation letter, Mr McSweeney took “full responsibility” for the decision to appoint the disgraced Labour peer.
The satirical video was made by the Crewkerne Gazette spoof site, which also released AI videos to mock Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves and David Lammy.
In the latest of the sketches posted to social media McSweeney and Starmer star as spoofs of Jack and Rose from the Titanic movie
Lying on a piece of driftwood in icy water Keir Starmer says: “The Labour party has decided it was actually you who lost the keys to the binocular cabinet, Morgan.”
McSweeney replies: “That’s not true Keir, you know that.”
And the PM admits: “Perhaps, but that doesn’t matter now. We’ll re-write the history books.”
McSweeney then descends into the waters as the camera pans left to show Lord Mandelson as the ice berg that famously sunk the Titanic.
The video marked an end to McSweeney’s time in the Labour government – with some claiming he was made a scapegoat in the fallout of the scandal around Lord Mandelson’s involvement with Jeffery Epstein.
Responding to the leading Labour figure’s resignation the Prime Minister hailed his former chief of staff’s “central role” in Labour 2024 general election campaign.
In a statement, the PM said: “It’s been an honour working with Morgan McSweeney for many years.
“He turned our party around after one of its worst ever defeats and played a central role running our election campaign.
“It is largely thanks to his dedication, loyalty and leadership that we won a landslide majority and have the chance to change the country.
“Having worked closely with Morgan in opposition and in government, I have seen every day his commitment to the Labour Party and to our country.
“Our party and I owe him a debt of gratitude, and I thank him for his service.”
The AI footage was originally shared with the caption: “There’s something very Titanic about Morgan McSweeney leaving Downing Street.
“Keir Starmer clings on like Rose, while Morgan’s doing Jack in the drink.
“The Peter Mandelson iceberg isn’t disappearing anytime soon though.”
Other videos made and shared by the site include mocking AI footage of Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick and a ballad sung by Keir Starmer about Lord Mandelson.
Analysis by The Sun’s Political Editor
By JACK ELSOM, Political Editor
MORGAN McSweeney’s resignation is the last desperate throw of the dice for Sir Keir Starmer’s creaking premiership.
It was clear mutinous Labour MPs would not rest until they had been fed a sacrificial lamb for the Mandelson scandal.
And McSweeney – a longtime lightning rod for backbench anger with No10 – was the ideal scalp.
But by falling on his own sword, he might just have delivered the fatal blow to Starmer himself.
This is now a government in total crisis. McSweeney’s departure only puts that undeniable fact up in lights.
Starmer will no doubt appoint a “safe pair of hands” – a Darren Jones or Louise Casey type – as part of an ultimately futile attempt at another reset.
History is littered with such examples: think Liz Truss firing Kwasi Kwarteng, or Theresa May sacking her top aides.
Like them, the only question is whether Starmer bleeds out slowly over the coming months, or more quickly in the next few days and weeks.
The idea that Labour agitators will now be satisfied and fall obediently into line is absurd.
Placating a snarling pack of wolves only tends to give them a taste for it, and Starmer will have nowhere to hide when they come for him next.
Worse, the PM has now angered McSweeney’s fiercely loyal allies, who rightly or wrongly blame him for tossing him overboard.
Many were getting in touch last night to make their feelings known. Even those who hardly knew him were sore.
One MP told me: “I wasn’t his friend, barely knew him. But I know that his political instinct and strategy is why I’m an MP.”
And this is the real rub: without McSweeney, there would be no Starmer.
Devoid of any driving ideology or political antennae himself, the PM devolved this to his chief of staff who in return delivered him a landslide.
Without McSweeney it is unclear what is left of the Starmer Project, or for how long it can now limp on.
