546. Keir Starmer Resigns: What Happens Next?

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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.

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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.

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