Starmer’s troubles may be self-inflicted. But voters everywhere are fed up with leaders lacking courage
- Written by Mark Beeson, Adjunct Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney
Keir Starmer is the United Kingdom’s sixth prime minster in the past ten years. For a country that likes to think of itself as the birthplace of modern democracy and a model of stability in a turbulent world, this is not a good look.
It’s also a painful reminder that democratic politics everywhere is becoming increasingly febrile.
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