{"id":906833,"date":"2026-04-20T12:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/906833\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:45:16","slug":"5-times-keir-starmer-blamed-the-deep-state-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/906833\/","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 opined 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\/uk\/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 long-standing 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 opined that delivering change is much harder&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":906834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,1193,8612,473,393,4884,774,837,807,2597,1144,5111,28300,2443,712,811,16,15,1764,771,231032,1202],"class_list":["post-906833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uk","category-united-kingdom","tag-britain","tag-british-politics","tag-cyprus","tag-defense","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-keir-starmer","tag-military","tag-northern-ireland","tag-parliament","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-regulation","tag-scotland","tag-security","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wales","tag-war","tag-war-in-iran","tag-westminster-bubble"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116437105356640305","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906833","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=906833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/906834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}