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Does Keir Starmer Believe in Anything?

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27.06.2026

Why Was Keir Starmer So Disastrously Ineffective?

Mr. Leslie is the author of several books on human psychology and creativity. He wrote from London.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain still occupies 10 Downing Street, but all power is already flowing toward the man widely expected to replace him, Andy Burnham. In the American system, a president becomes a lame duck the moment a successor is elected. Britain seems to have accidentally replicated this condition.

It isn’t........

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