Starmer’s resignation marks yet another chapter in Britain’s political instability, underscoring how quickly power can evaporate in Westminster.

Keir Starmer’s resignation outside Downing Street this week landed less like a shock and more like a confirmation. In barely a decade, Britain has now watched six prime ministers walk out that same black door for the last time, with a seventh about to walk in. A man who won a commanding majority just two years ago has joined a list that increasingly looks less like a roll of national leaders and more like a casualty count.

The proximate cause was brutal but familiar: a battering in last month’s local elections, an internal Labour revolt that had been simmering for months, and approval ratings that had sunk to historic lows.........

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