Keir Starmer Has One Last Gambit: Project Fear

When a prime minister has their back against the wall and runs out of positive arguments for their survival, they have one last recourse: Project Fear and the threat that the price of getting rid of them will be so stratospherically high that no one but a wrecker would consider it.

Keir Starmer has reached that point within two years of taking office, even though his Labour Party enjoys a whopping majority in the UK’s House of Commons — albeit on a thin vote base, which has created a sense of instability now fully on display. More articulate rivals such as Wes Streeting, the former Health Secretary who has resigned to facilitate “a broad leadership contest,” are snapping at his heels. In response, a Labour member of Parliament also resigned his seat to help the soft-left’s favorite son, Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, make his way back to Parliament to challenge the PM directly.