Snapshot · The Rest Is Politics
Andy Burnham will become Britain's seventh Prime Minister in the decade since the 2016 Brexit referendum — a rate of leadership turnover that rivals Italy's historically volatile politics.
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Alastair Campbell sets the scene with barely concealed disbelief: a man who won one of Labour's greatest-ever victories is now heading for the exit after less than two years. The framing is immediate and visceral — Starmer stood outside Number 10, fought back tears as he thanked his family, and accepted that his MPs no longer wanted him. His departure, Campbell notes, lands on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Brexit referendum, a coincidence that feels like something more. Andy Burnham, fresh from his by-election win, is almost certain to become Britain's seventh Prime Minister in a decade — a statistic that speaks to a politics that has become, in Campbell's phrase, virtually unmanageable.
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