It’s been a long race, but a race run short. Keir Starmer has been overtaken by fresh legs and old enemies. He knew the rules

While PM’s desire to fight was strong, time with his inner circle at Chequers sharpened his sense of the inevitable

"The question now is whether Sir Keir leaves in a manner of his choosing or is dragged into a contest that would wound Labour and distract the country"

Keir Starmer was elected Britain’s prime minister in 2024 to be a safe pair of hands who would end years of political chaos under the Conservatives.

It was only a matter of time before Labour MPs lost faith completely. The herd has moved.

Starmer appeared ruthless in banishing the influence of Jeremy Corbyn, and winning power – but far less certain on how to wield it

Keir Starmer was elected Britain’s prime minister in 2024 to be a safe pair of hands who would end years of political chaos under the Conservatives

Now that the end has come for Keir Starmer, history can get to work, analysing and anatomising his failures. The central question for posterity: how did a politician win a huge…

Where did it go wrong for the outgoing prime minister? And how much – if at all – did it threaten to go right?

Dutiful rather than dynamic, Keir Starmer was elected to be a safe pair of hands after years of chaos under Britain’s Conservatives. His term ended less than two years later amid…

The PM is another butterfly broken on the wheel of the public gaze, not quite ready to accept his own limitations

'He was rubbish on all metrics,' one civil servant says of prime minister, who presented himself as the grown-up politician

It’s been a long race, but a race run short. Keir Starmer has been overtaken by fresh legs and old enemies. He knew the rules

Where did it go wrong for the outgoing prime minister? And how much – if at all – was positive?

PM’s demise after landslide victory two years ago points to an increasingly volatile and impatient electorate