Keir Starmer is quitting, making him the seventh UK PM in ten years
Britain is running through Prime Ministers faster than most people change their phone cases, and Keir Starmer is officially next in line for the exit.
On Monday morning, Starmer is going to stand outside 10 Downing Street and tell the world he is done. This comes after his own party basically staged a polite British intervention. About ten of his own ministers told him privately that his time was up, and 100 MPs publicly agreed.
The local elections in May were an absolute disaster for the Labour Party—they lost over a thousand seats and lost control of the Welsh parliament. Starmer took the hit but tried to cling to power, which clearly did not fly with his colleagues.
He is not packing his bags tonight, though. The plan is to hang around until autumn so Andy Burnham, the likely successor, can actually put a team together and avoid immediate chaos.
This will make him the seventh British Prime Minister in just a single decade.
At this point, the UK might want to consider putting the Prime Minister's office on Airbnb with a weekly rate.
Source: The Guardian
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