This week British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been fighting for his political survival as more than 80 members of his own party have asked him to step down, and recent polls show him to be Britain’s most unpopular leader on record. Just two years ago Starmer entered Downing Steet after winning a landslide victory – where did it all go wrong?
Issued on: 13/05/2026 - 18:29
Modified: 13/05/2026 - 19:52
When Keir Starmer became prime minister in 2024, Labour had won a landslide victory and the Conservative party had suffered its worst ever defeat after 14 years of governance.
The new PM had both an impressive legal background as former director of public prosecutions, and working-class credentials as the son of a toolmaker. In his early premiership the worst scandal that the UK media managed to dig up about him was whether or not he paid the correct amount of tax on a field that he bought for his parents’ four pet donkeys.
