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.
Yeah, if I were him I would have quit, too.
His constituents are progressives but his platform is socially conservative, e.g. he doesn’t seem to support bodily autonomy or believe in fluid gender identity.
UK is probably better off without him.
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.
I personally see the issues of privacy and bodily autonomy as being hand in hand, pretty much everyone I’ve ever met that was strictly pro-privacy in practice also supportive of trans rights and pro choice.
For example, over in the USA tons of conservatives were terrified and mortified at Obama’s NSA spying on them…
But then they voted for the fucking Peter Theil (Palantir - FlockCams and millitant AI) Candidate: Donald Trump.