Weak leaders are only part of the story. Restless MPs and volatile voters have made Downing Street harder to survive.

There was a time when becoming Prime Minister of Britain represented the culmination of a life’s work. Men spent decades climbing party ladders, surviving ideological civil wars,…

Britains political system has seen repeated early exits of prime ministers over the past decade, with six leaders from David Cameron to Keir Starmer all failing to complete full…

The favourite to succeed, Andy Burnham, seems to believe in nothing: he has tended to go along with the policies of whoever was leading his party at the time.

At the heart of Britain’s leadership instability lies a stubbornly weak economy.

Britain faces a political crisis with a rapid turnover of leaders, the latest being Keir Starmer's resignation. Decades of economic stagnation, ballooning debt from global shocks,…

A revolving door at 10 Downing Street weakens Britain’s global standing and our collective interests

Weak leaders are only part of the story. Restless MPs and volatile voters have made Downing Street harder to survive.

Once a bastion of political stability, the U.K.'s political fragmentation has turned Downing Street into a revolving door of Prime Ministers.