By Harold Hutchison, Daily Caller News Foundation | June 21, 2026
President Donald Trump announced British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will step down days after the release of a report saying 250,000 girls were raped by Muslim “grooming gangs” in the United Kingdom.
Restore Britain Member of Parliament Rupert Lowe released the “Rape Gang Inquiry Report” on Tuesday, stoking fury at Starmer, a former head of the Crown Prosecution Service. Trump posted about Starmer’s rumored departure Sunday on Truth Social.
Rumors of Starmer’s potential resignation have increased in the days after Andy Burnham won a by-election after promising to launch an intra-party challenge to Starmer. The British Foreign Office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Starmer leaves office after becoming increasingly unpopular since taking office in 2024, having nearly been forced out of office after files pertaining to registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were released in January. The files revealed the registered sex offender’s close ties to Peter Mandelson, Starmer’s hand-picked ambassador to the United States. While Starmer claimed Mandelson misled him about his links to Epstein, the revelations led to the Reform Party sweeping local council elections.
The Lowe report states that “predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs across towns and cities throughout the United Kingdom” engaged in the “systematic targeting” of predominately white girls.
“Across Britain, clear evidence of organised abuse by Pakistani gangs, among other majority-Muslim ethnic groups, was ignored because confronting it risked accusations of racism,” the Lowe report continues.
Harold Hutchison is a contributor to The Daily Caller News Foundation.
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