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546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens Next?

Explore episode Jun 22, 2026

There's this odd sense that Britain is becoming a country that's spitting through prime ministers that are Belgian or what used to be an Italian race, although the Italians now hang on.

Rory Stewart

546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens…

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Gratitude above all for the fact that he saw the writing on the wall and didn't try to Joe Biden it and hang on to the last moment.

Rory Stewart

546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens…

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Starmer's Exit: The Brutal Logic of British Politics

546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens Next? · Jun 22, 2026 Government

Keir Starmer won Labour's third-biggest ever parliamentary majority and resigned within two years — a brutality that says more about the state of British politics than about Starmer himself. He is one of only four Labour leaders in history to win a general election.