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The Starmer era is officially over. Keir Starmer has set out a plan to resign as prime minister.
His announcement outside Downing Street cuts short a premiership that began just two years ago with a historic landslide victory but ended in political paralysis.
While his exit follows months of plummeting poll numbers, the fatal trigger was the sudden Westminster return of his chief rival, Andy Burnham, forcing a final internal party mutiny that Starmer simply couldn’t survive.
But how did a leader who promised “calm after chaos” lose control so quickly?
