UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives his resignation speech in front of 10 Downing Street, London, June 22, 2026 (Sky)

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I joined Pakistan TV on Monday to assess UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation, setting it in the context of Britain’s Brexit bind.

While navigating the challenges in a damaged UK political and media culture, I explain how the root problem — as it was for Starmer’s six predecessors since 2016 — is the social and economic damage of the UK’s departure from the European Union.

I assess whether Starmer’s likely successor, former Mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham, will be able to establish his Government as competent and effective. I explain how the UK is now a multi-party country with the distortion of a first-past-the-post electoral system, and I note the ongoing threat of a hard-right Reform Party with its national TV channel and allied with the Trump camp.