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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
John Crace

Digested week: Starmer’s day of reckoning was foreseen – just not the level of drama

Keir Starmer and Gordon Brown sitting talking
Digested week in pictures: ‘I can show you the radiator I chained myself to back in 2010.’ Photograph: Simon Dawson/No 10 Downing Street

Monday

No one can say they weren’t warned. Last week’s elections had always been marked out as a time of maximum danger for Keir Starmer if the results were as bad as feared. And so it proved. Only no one had anticipated quite the level of drama that would go with it. While the Tories have always been quite ruthless about getting rid of a leader they deem surplus to requirements, Labour MPs seem unable to decide whether their regicide is a tragedy or a comedy. Or a mixture of both.

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