{"id":17837,"date":"2026-04-20T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/17837\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:18:09","slug":"5-times-keir-starmer-blamed-the-deep-state-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/17837\/","title":{"rendered":"5 times Keir Starmer blamed the deep state \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a session with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.civilserviceworld.com\/news\/article\/starmer-frustrated-with-gap-between-pulling-lever-and-delivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">parliament\u2019s Liaison Committee<\/a> last December, the PM whined that delivering change is much harder than it looks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy experience now as prime minister is of frustration that every time I go to pull a lever there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arm\u2019s-length bodies,\u201d he told senior MPs quizzing him about his record in office. \u201cThe action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Starmer said he was trying to take action by reducing regulation, but \u201cit takes time to take it down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2271173259-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8299997\"  \/>Just five months after walking into No. 10 Downing Street with a landslide majority, the PM lambasted longstanding civil servants for being relaxed about Britain\u2019s reduced influence. | Yui Mok\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Whether the public will be quite so forgiving is unclear.<\/p>\n<p>5. Military moaning<\/p>\n<p>Military chiefs don\u2019t appear to have escaped the ire of Starmer\u2019s operation either.<\/p>\n<p>Under fire over Britain\u2019s flat-footed response to U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, <a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.com\/article\/revealed-keir-starmers-new-plan-to-get-closer-to-the-eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Spectator magazine<\/a> was briefed that U.K. Chief of the Defense Staff Richard Knighton argued at a private meeting that Britain didn\u2019t need to send an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean \u2014\u00a0enraging Cyprus, Jordan, and the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a session with parliament\u2019s Liaison Committee last December, the PM whined that delivering change is much harder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[497,313,1358,24,30,94,1816,185,5035,604,460,5,6,462,2067],"class_list":{"0":"post-17837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-cyprus","10":"tag-defense","11":"tag-iran","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-military","15":"tag-parliament","16":"tag-peter-mandelson","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-security","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-war","22":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/116436998866527581","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}