As weary Britons watch the months-long saga surrounding the prime ministership of Keir Starmer nearing its end, it might help to know that another apparently stable democracy has been through all this before.
It was in June of 2010 when stunned Australians woke up to the news that their popular prime minister, Kevin Rudd, had been politically executed in a late night coup by his deputy Julia Gillard, making her Australia’s first female leader.
The dramatic events of that night kicked off more than a decade of destablisation in the country’s capital, Canberra, some of the impact of which is still being felt today.
Former Australian Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard. (Picture: Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
Why did Rudd have to go?
