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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Jaja Agpalo

Keir Starmer Warned He Could Call Surprise Brexit Referendum to 'Save His Skin'

PM Starmer orders review of police powers to curb chants at pro-Palestine protests on 8 October 2025 (Credit: Keir Starmer Instagram account photo)

In a crowded Westminster office lined with history books, Alex Burghart, one of Kemi Badenoch's closest confidants, articulates a fear that haunts Conservative strategists: that Prime Minister Keir Starmer might, in desperation, gamble everything on a second referendum to reverse Brexit.

It is a provocative claim delivered with the urgency of a man who believes the political ground is shifting beneath the nation's feet—and that ordinary Britons have no idea how quickly the ground might give way.

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