Britain\u2019s depleted center-right Tories have been more than happy to depose a figurehead when the going gets tough \u2014 but it hasn\u2019t always helped.<\/p>\n
Theresa May replaced David Cameron as PM in 2016 \u2014 but lost the Conservatives\u2019 majority after calling an ill-advised snap election the following year. Liz Truss took over from Boris Johnson in 2022 \u2026 and was out of Downing Street 49 days later. Her successor, Rishi Sunak, led the Tories to their worst-ever defeat in the 2024 general election.<\/p>\n
Climate Secretary Ed Miliband embraced that argument on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cLabour MPs looked over the precipice and they didn\u2019t like what they saw,\u201d he told broadcasters. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs a collective body, the Cabinet, the Labour Party looked at the alternatives of going down this road of a chaotic leadership election, trying to depose a prime minister, and they said: \u2018No, that\u2019s not for us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The problem for Starmer is that sentiment might not hold. <\/p>\n
If his poll ratings don\u2019t improve, or if there\u2019s another big misstep from No. 10, Labour MPs might just be willing to roll the dice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s depleted center-right Tories have been more than happy to depose a figurehead when the going gets tough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[8916,9311,3420,5109,748,23522,17790,33,393,4884,113989,807,1749,2441,25809,1144,5111,28300,619,5112,23422,712,1200,11655,16,15,1764,3595,1202],"class_list":["post-756358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-andy-burnham","tag-angela-rayner","tag-bonds","tag-boris-johnson","tag-britain","tag-david-cameron","tag-ed-miliband","tag-elections","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-john-major","tag-keir-starmer","tag-liz-truss","tag-markets","tag-mayors","tag-northern-ireland","tag-parliament","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-rachel-reeves","tag-rishi-sunak","tag-roads","tag-scotland","tag-tax","tag-theresa-may","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-wes-streeting","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116049964172428101","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}