{"id":64423,"date":"2026-06-23T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64423"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T15:07:04","slug":"uk-prime-minister-keir-starmer-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=64423","title":{"rendered":"UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, The New York Post<\/a> reported that the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer has resigned.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Sir Keir Starmer choked up as he announced his resignation as UK prime minister Monday \u2014 less than two years after the Labour Party stormed to a landslide general election win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starmer, 63, set out a timetable to stand down after coming under mounting pressure following last month\u2019s local elections, in which the governing Labour Party lost over 1,000 seats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The prime minister announced his intention to step down after admitting the Labour Party was questioning whether he could lead it into the next general election, which must be held before July 2029, just 23 months after leading his party to a huge win.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,\u201d Starmer said outside 10 Downing Street in London.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEvery decision I\u2019ve taken has been about putting the country I love first. That is why I will resign as leader of the Labour Party. I have spoken to his majesty the king this morning to inform him of my decision.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

Calls for Starmer\u2019s resignation intensified over the past month after Labour was routed by Nigel Farage\u2019s Reform UK party across post-industrial England.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStarmer isn\u2019t the first Prime Minister I\u2019ve deposed, and he won\u2019t be the last. David Cameron. Theresa May. Rishi Sunak. And next up \u2013 Andy Burnham. The reason each leader has failed is the same,\u201d Farage wrote in a Substack post Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the political class fails to understand is that the electorate won\u2019t accept being taken for fools. They cannot continue to take the votes of the people who supported them for granted, only to betray them upon having gained power. Politics is about trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat is why I am calling for a general election at the soonest possible date. You know as well as I do that the country cannot afford to waste another week drifting from crisis to crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why millions of you turned out in the local elections to vote for Reform councillors, and it\u2019s why we have led in more than 300 opinion polls for well over a year.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:\\<\/p>\n

Just last week, Starmer lost Defense Secretary John Healey over the government\u2019s defense investment plan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats,\u201d Healey told Starmer\u00a0in his resignation letter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starmer\u2019s popularity has plunged after repeated missteps and U-turns on policies such as welfare reform, as well as his disastrous decision to appoint Peter Mandelson<\/a>, a scandal-tarnished friend of Jeffrey Epstein, as Britain\u2019s ambassador to Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Labour government has also failed to deliver promised economic growth and ease a longstanding cost-of-living crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Britain has a number of problems right now–economic, immigration, etc. At some point the British are going to want their country back after unlimited immigration has created some major problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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