What’s Ailing Keir Starmer?

A year after winning national elections, the British leader is struggling.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump, U.S. President Donald Trump, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, and Lady Victoria Starmer watch the Red Devils parachute display team at Chequers, the country home of the British prime minister, in Aylesbury, England.

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Keir Starmer has been in office as Britain’s prime minister for a little longer than a year—and currently enjoys only a 22 percent approval rating among the pu

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