After 6 prime ministers in 10 years, can anyone fix the UK?

🇬🇧 South China Morning Post (GB) —
After 6 prime ministers in 10 years, can anyone fix the UK?

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Keir Starmer announced his resignation after less than two years as UK leader, continuing a pattern of political instability with six prime ministers in 10 years. The high turnover rate has failed to alleviate public dissatisfaction over living standards and political leadership.

On Monday morning, ⁠Keir Starmer emerged into the sunshine in Downing Street flanked by his staff and ⁠wife, his voice thick with emotion as he said he was no longer the right person to lead Britain. Starmer, who won one of the biggest landslides in British political history, is out after less than two years. The sixth leader to quit in 10 years. The highest rate of political turnover in almost two centuries. Like his predecessors, Starmer failed to stem popular anger over living standards,...

World Politics UK politics Keir Starmer political turnover leadership crisis living standards

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