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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jonathan Freedland

The rise and fall of Keir Starmer: where did it all go wrong?

Illustration showing Keir Starmer looking at playing cards.
Was Starmer dealt a losing hand as prime minister? Illustration: Guardian Design/Anaïs Mims/Getty

Historians will puzzle over this one. Of the six prime ministers that have led Britain over the last decade, with a seventh now on the way, it will be the fall of Keir Starmer that will most perplex the political analysts of the future.

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.

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