Keir Starmer expected to announce resignation timetable, paving way for Burnham premiership - UK politics live
Overview
It’s still unclear whether there will be a leadership contest or an uncontested handover of power
Starmer expected to announce exit plan to clear way for Burnham to become PM
‘A shift has taken place’: Starmer faces the music after weekend of reflection
Libby Brooks has written about Keir Starmer’s predicament in her First Edition briefing this morning. Here it is.
And here is an excerpt.
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Since then, I’ve reported on people’s anger at successive prime ministers, but none have been so viscerally disliked across the spectrum as Starmer – so I called up Polly [Toynbee], who was busy working on her column, to ask what it is about him that stirs such passion. I’ve heard it myself on the doorsteps during the recent Holyrood election campaign: welfare reforms, Gaza, Mandelson … Weren’t no clothes peg big enough. And still Starmer didn’t take us into an illegal war or party while grieving relatives were kept away from their dying loved ones during Covid lockdowns.
Is it down to that enduring criticism of Starmer’s poor storytelling, or voters’ accumulated disappointments, or simply politics in the social media age?
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Originally published at www.theguardian.com.