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With Starmer Out, Britain Must Confront the Roots of Its Instability

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With Starmer Out, Britain Must Confront the Roots of Its Instability
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reacts as he announces the timeline for his resignation, outside 10 Downing Street, in London, Britain, on June 22, 2026. Jaimi Joy/Reuters
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Sir Keir Starmer, the caretaker prime minister, has resigned to jeers and denunciation, the sixth person to occupy that office in the past decade. He leaves in a storm of outrage over endemic crime, population-wide censorship, authoritarian arrests for social-media postings, a failure to deal with the immigration crisis, and with no viable plan to handle falling living standards.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]