It’s Deja Coup All Over Again for Starmer as Political Instability Returns
British politics is back to peak pandemonium after Starmer’s underwhelming speech and so too is the potential damage to debt repayment costs
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Here we go again - deja coup, not just deja vu. Once again, a prime minister is battling to survive as his backbenchers turn on him and leadership speculation dominates the news. Labour is busy proving that these days even a landslide election victory and a three-figure parliamentary majority provides only temporary respite before British politics returns to plotting and instability.
There was some comfort for Keir Starmer overnight with Arsenal winning their crunch Premier League match, keeping their title pursuit on track. Cue much needed hilarity at the Prime Minister’s reset press conference when one political editor accidentally played audio of an Arsenal clip on loudspeaker. Starmer may have wanted that moment to never end.