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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Kiran Stacey Policy editor

From Send to single-sex spaces: key tests facing Keir Starmer in 2026

Keir Starmer in Downing Street
Keir Starmer believes this will be the year things start to improve for his beleaguered premiership. Photograph: Hiba Kola/Reuters

Keir Starmer will begin his second full year in Downing Street as one of the least popular ever prime ministers – a spectacularly rapid reversal from his landslide election win of just 18 months ago.

Yet Starmer believes this will be the year things start to improve for his beleaguered premiership and fractious Labour party.

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