If UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer chooses to step aside, or is ousted, his successor would become Britain’s seventh prime minister in a decade.
Despite winning a landslide election in 2024, the British public soured on Starmer almost as soon as he took office.
Attacked from the right over his perceived failure to control illegal immigration, from the left over unpopular economic policies – and by many across the political spectrum over his lack of charisma and political vision – Starmer’s position had been deteriorating for months.
Last week’s local election results – which saw Labour lose more than 1,400 seats across English councils and control of the Welsh parliament,…