Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer “promised change which he failed to deliver”, the leader of the DUP has said.
Gavin Robinson was speaking after the Labour leader suffered bruising election results for his party across Great Britain.
Sir Keir made a key speech on Monday, vowing to prove his doubters wrong, and that he would not “walk away”.
It came after challenger Catherine West backed down but said that the Prime Minister should resign by September.
Mr Robinson claimed many were left “scratching their heads” after Sir Keir’s speech, adding it “didn’t cut it”.
“He continues to use terminology that most people in the real world simply don’t understand,” Mr Robinson said at Parliament Buildings in Belfast.
“He promised change in this country that he has failed to deliver.
“We don’t vote for Labour in Northern Ireland, he is not a Prime Minister that we had a role in putting in place. He won his own mandate and he has lost the support of people right throughout the United Kingdom.
“This is an internal Labour issue now.
“If today’s speech was meant to shift the dial, to move the conversation on, to inject hope in a leadership which has failed over the last two years, I’m really not sure it cut it.”
First Minister Michelle O’Neill said Sir Keir’s leadership “was a matter for the Labour Party”, adding: “I don’t like to intervene in something that is really a matter for English voters and the Labour Party itself.”
