So, Sir Keir has resigned as Labour Leader.
Last week Andy Burnham won the by-election, so can enter the Commons, and be elected as PM if there were to be a contest.
There will be.
Or, there could just be a coronation.
Starmer has not resigned as PM, as the country has to have a leader, only when there is a new Labour leader can he be replaced.
Starmer, despite what the right wing press and chattering classes might say, is a good man.
However, all he had to do was not be as bad as the 15 previous years of Conservative rule, and make the country a better place.
It is hard to see how he has improved on things, since he won a handsome majority two years ago, and so a mandate to implement his Party's manifesto pledges.
It is hard to see how things are much better. Even his reset with the EU is bogged down and the next meeting with the EU is probably going to be cancelled in July, even before his resignation.
He has supported continuing arms sales to Israel even as they continue a genocidal war against Palestine, committing numerous war crimes in the process. Starmer, let's not forget is a human rights lawyer, then made it a terrorist offence to support Palestine and not Israel. History will not be kind.
The main reason should have been when he lost the confidence of the House of Commons on national security issues during the Mandleson scandal. When the Commons doesn't believe you, then you should have resigned then.
Although you wouldn't believe it reading the papers or listening to the BBC, numbers corssing the Channel in boats is nearly 40% down on last year, but such stories don't suit the narrative that is expected to carry Farage into Number 10 come the next election.
And as the multiple resignations by Tory PM's in the last decade didn't trigger and election, they have no claim for the higher moral ground when they call for one now.
No Prime Minister has lasted a full five year term in a decade now, and it is hard to come to the conclusion that the UK is ungovernable.
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