The words were clear. The room wasn’t. A studio built for sound met a silence that didn’t feel neutral — it felt loaded. Viewers didn’t just disagree. They recoiled. And somewhere between policy and performance, a sharper question surfaced: when power speaks, who’s still listening — and what does it take to be heard without being dismissed?

Viewers of Good Morning Britain were left fuming after the latest report on Sir Keir Starmer aired on the ITV breakfast show. On Tuesday morning, Susanna Reid and Ed Balls hosted GMB, covering the UK Prime Minister’s comments on the upcoming pro-Palestine protests.

The demonstrations, scheduled to take place today to mark the two-year anniversary of the October 7th attacks, were condemned by Sir Keir Starmer, who described them as “un-British.”

He also repeated his calls for a two state solution, the release of the remaining hostages and for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza. Writing in The Times, he additionally stated that the UK is “indifferent about Anti Semitism.”

However, viewers of the ITV news show quickly hit back at the Prime Minister’s comments as they branded him “completely out of touch.”

Chief correspondent Richard Gaisford explained that the Prime Minister had said the government “do not want to stop people’s rights to protest but must ensure they do not keep brooding hate and division” and those who “call for violence against jews must face the full force of the law.”

A series of pro-Palestinian protests are scheduled to take place today in London as well as in several university cities across the UK, the Express reports. According to reports, Starmer has expressed concern that these demonstrations could escalate and take the form of what he describes as “hate marches.”

In his column for The Times, Starmer wrote: “This is not who we are as a country.” He added: “It’s un-British to have so little respect for others.”

“And that’s before some of them decide to start chanting hatred towards Jewish people all over again.”

However, many Good Morning Britain viewers disagreed with the Prime Minister’s views. Taking to X, formally known as Twitter, one user wrote: “Starmer is so out of touch, so ineffective as a Prime Minister that it’s embarrassing. Another four years of this and the country will be beyond salvation.”

While another fumed: “Is that the best Starmer can come out with? ‘Un-British’. What an absolute plonker of a Prime Minister.”

“Ban the marches for Gods sake or do something a bit more proactive than sitting on your hands,” they concluded.

A third user highlighted their frustration, penning: “If this is ‘un-British,’ then so was every anti-apartheid, anti-war, and civil rights march we’ve ever had. Jog on,” while a forth user added: “It’s not un-British to protest about genocide.”