SIR KEIR Starmer’s leadership has been compared to the hapless Baldrick from telly show Blackadder by a senior Tory.

The Prime Minister came under personal attack from Robert Jenrick over his “sorry excuse” year-long time in Downing Street.

Robert Jenrick compared Sir Keir Starmer to Baldrick from Blackadder in conference speech
Sir Keir Starmer at last week’s Labour annual conference in Liverpool
He was lambasted by the shadow Justice Secretary at the Tories’ annual conference in Manchester.

The PM came under fire for stifling free speech, betraying Brexit and raising taxes as he wooed delegates at the rally.

He was likened to Baldrick who plays the servant and sidekick to Edmund Blackadder in the BBC hit show.

Jenrick said:  “Now we all knew that Keir Starmer would be a bad Prime Minister.

“But I don’t think anyone anticipated he would be this bad. He’s combined the management style of David Brent with the administrative grip of Blackadder’s Baldrick.

“He’s proven himself to be a freebie-grabbing, free speech-stifling, criminal-releasing, tax-raising, farmer-hating, Brexit-betraying, aspiration-sapping sorry excuse for a leader.

“This is someone who makes a hole in the air look substantial, Peter Mandelson appear trustworthy and Mr Bean look like a model of competence and grip.”

“But despite all this, and this might surprise you, I think we’ve got reason to be optimistic.

“And that’s because in ways that matter most profoundly, the fantasists masquerading as experts are seeing their myths busted.”

The shadow Cabinet Minister finished second to eventual winner Kemi Badenoch in the leadership contest last November.

He is seen by many in the party as the natural successor to Badenoch should she be ousted as leader.

Jenrick also urged the the conference that the Tories need to “take our country back”.

The shadow justice secretary said there was “so much good in our country that’s worth fighting for”.

He included food, beer, the common law, “a royal family so admired they make the most powerful man in the world go weak at the knees, a military that has defeated every force on the planet”.

His comments came after he announced criminals will face tougher sentences under Tory plans to scrap the Sentencing Council and end “two-tier justice.”

He vowed to stop woke judges dishing out soft punishments for serious offenders.

He will blast the current system as “a two-tier nightmare” and say it is time to put the British people back in charge of justice.

The Sentencing Council, set up by Labour, tells judges how long to jail offenders.

But it sparked fury earlier this year after suggesting judges take into account an offender’s race, religion or background before sentencing.

The plan triggered a major backlash and ministers were forced to use emergency laws to block it.

However, Justice Secretary David Lammy said: “Robert Jenrick calls himself a patriot, but he tramples on the British values he claims to defend. He calls himself a Conservative, but he threatens to trash the institutions and traditions that hold our country together.

“The independence of judges from politicians is not optional. It is the cornerstone of British democracy.

“When politicians start deciding which judges can stay or go, that is democratic backsliding and Robert Jenrick knows it.

“Unlike Robert Jenrick, the public knows Britishness isn’t about retreating into suspicion or judging people by the colour of their skin.

“It’s about pride in what we build and contribute together. While the Conservative Party feeds off division and decline, Labour is delivering the patriotic renewal our country needs.”

Sir Keir likened to Baldrick in Blackadder by senior Tory Robert Jenrick