Starmer vows to resist

Starmer vows to resist leadership challenges

Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to fight any coup launched against his leadership this year and intends to still be Prime Minister come 2027.

In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Sir Keir argued that switching leaders would be a “gift” to Nigel Farage and was against the “national interest”...

At another point he said bringing about political “chaos” by changing leader “would gift Nigel Farage”, the Reform leader whose party has been top in opinion polls since April.


Something Keir Starmer seems unable to grasp is the placing of emphasis. As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote nearly a century ago, emphasis moulds the confusion of life and this includes the confusion of politics.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis — a molding of the confusion of life into form.

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Bowl (1928)


Instead of using emphasis to mould debates and narratives, Stamer adds to confusion by his reliance on dull clichés and sound bites. He never seems to know where to put the emphasis to mould an interview, debate or even a speech. As if even in his own mind he emphasises the wrong things in the wrong way.