"Noise about Keir Starmer's durability quietens with MPs being away from Westminster's tearooms and murmuring corridors, but WhatsApps zing to and fro just as busily: should he stay or should he go?"
"At minus 54%, Starmer has been declared the most unpopular PM ever, a title also held at one time by each of his four predecessors."
"A new PM would need a new mandate, he writes: Without this, cabinet rifts become harder to control; backbenchers harder to tame. Things start to fall apart."
"Post-Brexit referendum, changing PMs four times in eight years all but destroyed the once natural party of government."
Keir Starmer's durability is under scrutiny as MPs, though absent from Westminster, exchange rapid WhatsApp messages debating whether he should stay. Polling places him at minus 54%, marking him as the most unpopular prime minister on record, mirroring temporary peaks of unpopularity held by each of his four predecessors. Labour is divided over whether leadership change would yield gains or sacrifice political stability after years of rapid turnover in No 10. Historical examples offer conflicting guidance: some warn a new leader needs a fresh mandate to control cabinet and backbenchers, while others argue failure alone justifies replacement. Pollster Peter Kellner cites John Major replacing Margaret Thatcher as a precedent.
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