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'Sir Keir's resignation speech moved me to tears'
Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party. He will remain as PM until Labour elects a new leader.
Sir Keir’s resignation speech moved me to tears.
He had stated he would stay put and yet when the pressure to step down from his own party was too great, he had the good grace to resign with dignity and humility.
It was the epitome of the British values aforementioned in his speech and for which our country is famous.
He put his pride aside and did the honourable thing – albeit because of much coercion from all sides.
I admire him all the more for this – and I am not a Labour supporter.
He is a decent family man with decent values and did his best. He was also a success on the world stage.
Sir Keir was hounded into resigning but I will wait to see if anyone can improve on his leadership and get this much-divided country back to some form of unity and normality. C Finn, Sunderland
‘Starmer, a man of integrity, honesty and compassion’
And so it begins – yet again another change of PM. This time it’s Starmer, a man of integrity, honesty and compassion. He has lowered NHS waiting lists, given tenants more rights, renationalised rail companies and expanded state-funded childcare.
What a sad day. Bobby Jones, Kidbrooke
‘He lost the support of his own MPs’
The reason Starmer is being forced out is because he has lost the support of his own MPs, plain and simple. The local election results were bad, yes, but that’s to be expected with a party in power – even William Hague beat Tony Blair in the 1999 EU elections.
The Mandelson scandal, and all the other scandals, wouldn’t have caused nearly as much damage to a stronger PM.
The fact of the matter is that the Labour Party hates Starmer because they see him as a sellout. He pretended to be on the party’s ‘soft left’ in order to win the party leadership, and then dragged the party so far to the right that it has completely lost its purpose. He copied Tory and even Reform policies on everything from the economy and welfare to immigration and the environment.
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The party has simply turned itself into the Tories mk II. And for what? Starmer won less of the vote in 2024 than Corbyn did in 2019. Starmer didn’t make Labour electable. The Conservatives just became unelectable. People want genuine, far-reaching change.
In order to achieve that, the next PM needs to make Labour Labour again. They need to take the party back to its roots. The MPs will support them, and so the new leader will have the strength to make real change happen. JWA Caley, St Pancras
‘Sir Keir Starmer achieved a good part of what Tony Blair managed’
Sir Keir Starmer achieved a good part of what Tony Blair managed. Like Blair, he pulled Labour back from unelectability to gain power. He then set about a perfectly reasonable social democratic programme of national renewal.
This in an international context less propitious than Blair enjoyed. The world economy was in better shape. Vladimir Putin had not yet shown his true colours and things were quieter in the US. Unlike Blair, Sir Keir leaves without any great big blot on his copybook.
A lack of charisma is hardly the PM’s fault – no one has all of the talents. Andrew McLuskey, Middlesex
‘We’re being treated to the circus that accompanies the resignation of a UK prime minister’
For the sixth time in a decade we’re being treated to the circus that accompanies the resignation of a UK prime minister. Compare this with the dignified departure of Mark Rutte, Dutch PM for 14 years.
He handed over to his successor in 2024 and simply rode away from his office on a bicycle. Our politicians could learn a lot from our Dutch friends. Bob Readman, Sevenoaks
Many PMs linked to Brexit
Six prime ministers in ten years? It is very difficult not to link these with Brexit.
It is as though Brexit, though not directly the cause, was the ‘beginning of the end’. Pedro, Hammersmith
What will Burnham bring?
What is the change that Andy Burnham will bring to the big issues we face? More immigration, more state control of freedom of speech, more net-zero, more EU, more war. Is this anything to get excited about? Liam, Salford
Justice for Larry
Let’s make Larry the Downing Street cat our next PM! Samuel, Tooting
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