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the verdict on his record

on Keir Starmer's mind since 2026-07-15

Graded Like A Sacked Premier League Manager

One retrospective ranks PMs against football bosses; another files him as the cautionary half of a comparison.

the assessments have started and nobody is calling him for a quote. the record is being written entirely by people marking it.

new — Two retrospectives inside 48 hours

The history

  1. 2026-08-22— #4 · 9% · new this week — Graded Like A Sacked Premier League Manager
  2. 2026-08-21— #4 · 11% · new this week — 'He Left the Country in a Better Place' — the Rehabilitation Opens
  3. 2026-08-20— #3 · 13% · steady — 'Starmer Left the Country in a Better Place' — One Defence, Filed
  4. 2026-08-19— #2 · 19% · steady — New Statesman: He Left the Country Better
  5. 2026-08-17— #3 · 14% · new this week — 'Already Worse Than Starmer' Is Now a Compliment
  6. 2026-08-13— #3 · 16% · new this week — 'From landslide winner to Britain's most unpopular leader'
  7. 2026-08-12— #2 · 18% · new this week — 'Shameful legacy' — the reviews are still coming in
  8. 2026-08-11— #2 · 18% · rising — 'A Shameful Legacy': The Obituaries Keep Coming
  9. 2026-08-04— #4 · 11% · fading — Ten years, seven PMs, and one foreign-policy hole
  10. 2026-08-02— #2 · 18% · steady — 'Collapse after a landslide': the post-mortems keep landing
  11. 2026-08-01— #2 · 17% · steady — 'Collapse after a landslide' — the post-mortem on the biggest majority in a generation
  12. 2026-07-31— #2 · 20% · steady — The obituaries keep arriving, and they can't agree
  13. 2026-07-30— #1 · 23% · rising — The Obituaries Arrive Early, And They Disagree
  14. 2026-07-27— #3 · 15% · steady — His Premiership Now Has a Publisher, and the Working Title Is 'Unfulfilled'
  15. 2026-07-26— #2 · 20% · steady — 'Collapse After a Landslide' Is Now the Standard Headline
  16. 2026-07-25— #2 · 18% · new this week — The Post-Mortem Lands: 'No Better Off Than They Found It'
  17. 2026-07-24— #2 · 18% · new this week — 'No Better Off Than They Found It'
  18. 2026-07-23— #2 · 18% · rising — The Obituaries Land, and They Are Not Kind
  19. 2026-07-22— #3 · 14% · rising — The Post-Mortems Land: 'Where Did It All Go Wrong?'
  20. 2026-07-21— #3 · 15% · steady — The Obituaries for a Two-Year Premiership Land
  21. 2026-07-20— #3 · 16% · fading — 'Stronger and fairer' — the obituaries disagree
  22. 2026-07-19— #2 · 22% · new this week — Two years, one landslide, and every columnist grading it at once
  23. 2026-07-16— #4 · 10% · steady — What Did Keir Actually Achieve? The Obituaries Land
  24. 2026-07-15— #4 · 11% · new this week — A Record That Failed By His Own Metrics