Keir Starmer has set out his timetable for leaving office less than two years after winning a landslide 174-seat majority. He was voted in on a promise of change but failed to deliver it. He said his election would ‘stop the endless Conservative chaos’ but delivered Labour chaos instead.
Election
Starmer was elected in a loveless landslide, with the biggest gap between the share of votes won and share of seats won in post-war history. Labour got 9.2 million votes. In 2017, Jeremy Corbyn got 12.9 million.
Popularity plunge
His popularity soon fell – lower than any recent prime minister’s, and faster than any except Liz Truss. What made him so unpopular?
