Britain braces for seventh PM in a decade as Starmer resigns

Keir Starmer’s resignation amid Britain’s post-Brexit turmoil kicks off another round of leadership churn, with Andy Burnham tipped as the front-runner to become the seventh prime minister in ten years. The piece traces how a sequence of shocks—from the 2008 financial crisis and austerity to Brexit, Covid, and energy-price surges—has weakened trust in government and fractured the two-party system, leaving the country searching for stability while Burnham pledges reforms to utilities and social care.