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Labour's last chance? Burnham set to replace Starmer as UK faces far-right surge
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Labour's last chance? Burnham set to replace Starmer as UK faces far-right surge

France 24 · Jun 22, 2026, 6:14 PM · Also reported by 3 other sources

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Another post-Brexit prime minister bites the dust. Keir Starmer owning up to the obvious, that he's too unpopular to lead the Labour Party into the next general election. After replacing the hard left's Jeremy Corbyn, the same Starmer won a whopping landslide two years ago on the promise of stability after all the chaos of Tory rule. Where did it all go wrong? Can the heavy favorite to replace him win back disgruntled Labour voters who first flocked to the Conservatives and now to the far-right Reform party?

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