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Keir Starmer is stepping down from the role of Prime Minister of the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkS7KNlWoBk

In the wake of rival Andy Burnham's substantial win in last week's
by-election in Makerfield and the urging of many, many of his own
colleagues, Starmer announced today that he is stepping down. The
celebrations have already begun. (There's a wonderful clip of traders in
the stock exchange cheering as if WWII just ended.)

Starmer will remain in office until his party has chosen a new leader
which Starmer imagines will happen in September before Parliament
resumes after its summer recess but the analyst in the video predicts
things will happen much quicker than that.

The big question now is whether the new leader - who is virtually
certain to be Burnham at this point - will call an election to earn a
renewed mandate to govern or whether he will just carry on for the rest
of the term, which doesn't have to end until summer 2029. The laws in
Britain do NOT require an election when a leader of the governing party
steps down so Burnham is under no obligation to have an election,
although there are many people who think there SHOULD be an election in
that case. Essentially, his choice is to carry on and hope he can turn
around public opinion by the time of the next election or have an
election soon after becoming leader and hope that just changing leaders
will be enough to restore the fortunes of the party.

Personally, I think there SHOULD be a national election if a party
changes leaders and there should be a by-election if someone "crosses
the floor" - changes their party affiliation - but neither is the law at present.
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On Jun 22, 2026 at 6:04:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Keir Starmer is stepping down from the role of Prime Minister of the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkS7KNlWoBk

In the wake of rival Andy Burnham's substantial win in last week's by-election in Makerfield and the urging of many, many of his own colleagues, Starmer announced today that he is stepping down. The celebrations have already begun. (There's a wonderful clip of traders in
the stock exchange cheering as if WWII just ended.)

Starmer will remain in office until his party has chosen a new leader
which Starmer imagines will happen in September before Parliament
resumes after its summer recess but the analyst in the video predicts
things will happen much quicker than that.

The big question now is whether the new leader - who is virtually
certain to be Burnham at this point - will call an election to earn a renewed mandate to govern or whether he will just carry on for the rest
of the term, which doesn't have to end until summer 2029. The laws in Britain do NOT require an election when a leader of the governing party steps down so Burnham is under no obligation to have an election,
although there are many people who think there SHOULD be an election in
that case. Essentially, his choice is to carry on and hope he can turn around public opinion by the time of the next election or have an
election soon after becoming leader and hope that just changing leaders
will be enough to restore the fortunes of the party.

Personally, I think there SHOULD be a national election if a party
changes leaders and there should be a by-election if someone "crosses
the floor" - changes their party affiliation - but neither is the law at present.

Everything I'm reading says Burnham is Starmer on steroids. He just has a more human, less robotic personality, so this isn't really anything worth celebrating.


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On 2026-06-22 11:47 a.m., BTR1701 wrote:

On Jun 22, 2026 at 6:04:43 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

Keir Starmer is stepping down from the role of Prime Minister of the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkS7KNlWoBk

In the wake of rival Andy Burnham's substantial win in last week's
by-election in Makerfield and the urging of many, many of his own
colleagues, Starmer announced today that he is stepping down. The
celebrations have already begun. (There's a wonderful clip of traders in
the stock exchange cheering as if WWII just ended.)

Starmer will remain in office until his party has chosen a new leader
which Starmer imagines will happen in September before Parliament
resumes after its summer recess but the analyst in the video predicts
things will happen much quicker than that.

The big question now is whether the new leader - who is virtually
certain to be Burnham at this point - will call an election to earn a
renewed mandate to govern or whether he will just carry on for the rest
of the term, which doesn't have to end until summer 2029. The laws in
Britain do NOT require an election when a leader of the governing party
steps down so Burnham is under no obligation to have an election,
although there are many people who think there SHOULD be an election in
that case. Essentially, his choice is to carry on and hope he can turn
around public opinion by the time of the next election or have an
election soon after becoming leader and hope that just changing leaders
will be enough to restore the fortunes of the party.

Personally, I think there SHOULD be a national election if a party
changes leaders and there should be a by-election if someone "crosses
the floor" - changes their party affiliation - but neither is the law at
present.

Everything I'm reading says Burnham is Starmer on steroids. He just has a more
human, less robotic personality, so this isn't really anything worth celebrating.

Agreed! Some of the commentators are saying he's going to be decidedly
WORSE than Starmer, something which is barely conceivable to me. I
really, *really*, REALLY hope Burnham is so vain that he thinks merely replacing Starmer is going to be enough to make him and his party loved
again so that he calls an election! Then, the country can finally be rid
of Labour - maybe forever - as a more sensible bunch gets a shot at
running the country.

Of course with this country's recent experience in mind, things *could*
go the other way and people are so relieved to be rid of Starmer that
they LIKE Burnham and give him enough seats to govern. That's what
happened here once the horrific Trudeau was finally out of office - with
a big assist to Trump over his tariffs policy. Somehow, too many
Canadians thought the problem was solved and they could give the
Liberals a mandate again, even though the whole party had enabled
Trudeau; the whole lot of them should have been kicked out for a
generation. But, somehow, the Liberals persuaded people that their party
was essential to saving the economy from Trump and they STILL don't
understand that Carney is DESTROYING the economy, not saving it.

I just hope Britain doesn't find themselves in the fire now that they're
out of the frying pan!
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