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Keir Starmer

What's on Keir Starmer's mind?

read fresh this morning at 6
24%18%13%10%35%
his successor's easy first fortnight 24% · newthe verdict on his record 18% downing street demoted to a branch office 13% one more coalition of the willing 10% · neweverything else 35%
#1
The Economist marks Burnham's first test a pass

Burnham cleared his opening fortnight — on an exam paper his predecessor wrote every question for.

Andy Burnham passes his first test

economist.com · 2026-08-01
our translation

he needs the honeymoon to end fast. every calm week burnham gets is another week the country concludes the problem was him, not the job.

new — Economist grades the first fortnightpretty sure · 2 sources
#2
'Collapse after a landslide': the post-mortems keep landing
Weekend post-mortems still arrivingpretty sure · 2 sources
#3
Power moves north, and No. 10 gets a suffix
Wire copy on the Manchester shiftpretty sure · 2 sources
#4
The coalition of the willing is dying quietly
new — Telegraph obituary published todayhonestly, a hunch · 1 source
sunday, august 2
Read the Telegraph's obituary for your Ukraine coalition, twice(reported)
Text Bev Craig congratulations before anyone counts the delay(reported)
Find Curtice's small print on how small the Burnham bounce is(reported)
Resist googling your own surname in German(safe bet)

rebuilt from the public schedule, pool reports & old habits — the rest is educated guessing

The source

The slow death of the Coalition of the Willing

news.google.com · 2026-08-02

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