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'He’s an arsehole': Labour fury at Keir Starmer

One source likened the UK government to London's driverless DLR rail system

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Latika M Bourke
Apr 22, 2026
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Keir Starmer is a pitiful figure. Incurious and incompetent, the UK Prime Minister’s reputation as a decent but boring managerial technocrat is shot. He is undone by the foreseeable disaster that was appointing Peter Mandelson to represent the UK as Ambassador to the United States.

‘The more I hear, the angrier I get. I think we need to dispense with a…

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