Keir Starmer's rapid political downfall: landslide victory to ouster in under two years
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Jonathan Freedland
Summary
Analysis of Keir Starmer's political downfall after winning a landslide victory in July 2024, only to be pushed out less than two years later. The article examines how an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate led to the demise of a PM who started no illegal wars, triggered no grave economic crises, and faced no corruption scandals. Historians are expected to find this political fall particularly perplexing compared to other recent British prime ministers.
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· 3 pulledHistorians will puzzle over this one.
They will ponder a man who won a landslide victory in July 2024 only to be pushed out less than two years later, having started no illegal wars, having triggered no grave economic crises, having been accused of no scandalous act of corruption.
PM's demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate
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