Chris Mason: The anatomy of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's downfall - BBC
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Five UK prime ministers have fallen in quick succession — is something structural breaking the job itself, or do leaders keep failing on their own terms?
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Theory Briefing
- Five consecutive UK prime ministers have had short tenures, prompting debate about whether the office itself is now ungovernable.
- A stagnant economic picture dating back years is cited as a key backdrop to each leader's political collapse.
- Competing theories split between systemic causes — broken institutions, sluggish growth — and individual leadership failures.
- Starmer's downfall is being dissected as the latest case study in whether any leader could have survived the same conditions.