Jul 27, 2026 · 45 min · 13 segments
Why did Keir Starmer get booted as Prime Minister of the UK? Former Starmer advisor Claire Ainsley joins the podcast to discuss what specifically went wrong for Starmer over the last two years, why…
Claire AinsleyGuestJeremiah JohnsonHostSo it's been a while since we've had you on, and I think the mood around the political conversation in the UK has changed.
I went back and looked, and the last podcast I think we had you on was titled something like... how labor got its groove back, you know, and we were riding high, I think on, you know, labor had been out of power for 10 or 11 years or something like that.
And it's only about two years from that point when Keir Starmer first assumed office as, as prime minister and he's already gone.
And, uh, I guess the central question here is what happened? This seems to happen a lot to British prime ministers in recent years.
So it's been a while since we've had you on, and I think the mood around the political conversation in the UK has changed.
I went back and looked, and the last podcast I think we had you on was titled something like... how labor got its groove back, you know, and we were riding high, I think on, you know, labor had been out of power for 10 or 11 years or something like that.
And it's only about two years from that point when Keir Starmer first assumed office as, as prime minister and he's already gone.
And, uh, I guess the central question here is what happened? This seems to happen a lot to British prime ministers in recent years.
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