LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won his job after leading his party to a massive victory in 2024. Less than two years later, he resigned as his party rebelled in the wake of widespread losses in local elections.
Starmer’s popularity plunged amid a struggling economy, a series of policy missteps, one particularly poor appointment and a perceived lack of vision.
The combination of challenges led to a thrashing for his Labour Party in local elections this spring and calls to step down that cleared a path for a would-be challenger to step forward and ultimately force him aside Monday.
This is a look at how his short-lived premiership unraveled.
I’d argue the cold war with russia or the furter transformation of the uk into a complete surveillance state are more important issues than fluid gender identity, but then again he only really did good on the russian issue ( and maybe tried a bit to repatch things with the EU ). I very much doubt the next one will be a progressive as I fear the best the uk can hope for these days is a mild conservative.