Has Brexit Made It Impossible To Be A Successful British Prime Minister?

HuffPost UK's Commons People podcast takes a look at how leaving the EU appears to have cursed anyone who enters No.10.

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Keir Starmer was meant to fix the country, having promised a clean break from the chaos which engulfed the Conservatives.

But on Monday, less than two years after his landslide win, the prime minister acknowledged he no longer has the support of his Labour MPs and would stand down in weeks.

His announcement means the UK is now, remarkably, heading for its seventh PM – all-but certainly Andy Burnham – in a decade after years of alarming churn in Downing Street.

In a strange twist of fate, Starmer’s decision to stand down came just 24 hours before the 10-year anniversary of the 2016 Brexit referendum.

How are the two connected?

Even as he was giving his emotional speech on Downing Street, Starmer was slightly drowned out by Steve Bray, the anti-Brexit campaigner who is still blasting out EU anthems in Westminster a decade on from the referendum.

There’s no denying that British politics has been uncharacteristically disruptive over the last........

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