British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks as he announces the timeline for his resignation, outside 10 Downing Street, in London, June 22, 2026.(Jaimi Joy/Reuters)
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is to step down in September. When an authoritarian loses authority within his own party, it is time to go, and so Starmer is going. To resign as prime minister at a time when his or her party commands a large parliamentary majority (if little respect in the country) is particularly humiliating.
The conventional wisdom is that Starmer failed by letting things drift. If only. He failed by presiding over a government that has been all too active, with consequences that are making Britain worse off politically, economically, and as a society. The voters noticed, to ...
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