A tough inheritance awaits Keir Starmer’s successor
With Keir Starmer announcing his intention to resign, Britain is set to get its seventh prime minister in a decade. Coming in the midst of a political realignment, as a two-party system fragments into a five-party one, this raises a question: Is Britain ungovernable? On the one hand, there is Starmer’s record in office, which has included a slew of policy U-turns and a pivot to the right that has alienated much of Labour’s traditional base. On the other hand, there are structural factors, such as the impacts of the 2008 financial crisis and Brexit, and the long-term........
