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UK Shows Few Leaders Last in Ungovernable Era

Starmer’s premiership at risk as traditional two-party UK political system shatters.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and and ex-Health Secretary Wes Streeting.Photographer: Leon Neal/Getty Images

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Is it another case of Broken Britain, where a decade after voting to leave the European Union, the country’s politics have fractured beyond repair?