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Columnist,Times. Spectator. Author: "Disunited Kingdom". BBC TV/ radio presenter for over 25 years. Former Rector Edinburgh University.

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Columnist for Herald. Author: "Disunited Kingdom" -"Still best book on the independence vote". Ex BBC TV/ radio presenter. Former Rector Edinburgh University.
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And so farewell then Keir Starmer…

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By Iain Macwhirter Verified
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It was perhaps the least surprising prime ministerial resignation in modern political history . We had been told for weeks that Keir Starmer was on what Scots call “ a shoogly peg”. That his time in Number Ten was drawing to an ignominious close. This morning to the deafening sounds of the Beethoven’s Ode to Joy blasted out by the anti-Brexit campaigners Starmer finally fell off the eponymous peg. Bathos is hardly the right word for it.
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Electoral Ataxia - How British Voters Lost It

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By Iain Macwhirter Verified
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“I realise the demand for change in Makerfield. The need for real change. Hope. And change. And more money in people’s pockets and in businesses. That’s what I have delivered in Manchester. Big glass towers of change. And I know that change is possible in the way we do politics in this country - and if that means yet more change, then so be it…” And so continues the Prime Minister-in-waiting, Andy Burnham, winner of the Makerfield by-election.
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Healey Sticks the Knife In

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To lose one defence minister in one day is bad; losing two looks like carelessness. In fact, to depart from Wildean tropes, it is catastrophic. The Defence Secretary, John Healey, who resigned yesterday, plunging the Starmer Cabinet into yet another crisis, was thought to be doggedly loyal. But he plunged the knife into his boss’s authority by storming out declaring that the Prime Minister was making Britain “less safe”.
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