Keir Starmer is already a lame duck Prime Minister but – like many who hold that office – he is stubborn and thus likely to stagger on until the untenability of his position is punched into him by his Parliamentary colleagues.
Starmer’s political obituary will read that he misled Parliament (or at best was economical with the truth), that he ran a No. 10 operation that was out of control and alienated many of his own MPs, that his judgement on the big decisions he was actually willing to take (few in number) was deeply flawed and that his unpopularity with the British public led his party to electoral oblivion (Labour has every chance of coming in fifth place in both vote share and council seats won on May 7th).
But despite the fact that Starmer is in no way equipped to be PM, I think the real tale is that Britain has now become essentially ungovernable.
In a period of over half a century from 1964, only eight different people occupied the office of Prime Minister. We are now on the verge of moving on to our sixth PM in a single decade.
The political debate in Westminster is focused on whether ‘full due process’ was followed and whether Starmer has been deceitful about his actions, inaction and baseline knowledge....<<<Read More>>>...
