Deepak Tripathi – Fragmented Britain: Seventh Prime Minister in a Decade

Fragmented Britain: Seventh Prime Minister in a Decade

Photograph Source: Sergeant Tom Robinson RLC/MOD – OGL v1.0 Just two years after the July 4, 2024, general election, in which Kier Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory, his party has forced him out as prime minister. Andy Burnham has succeeded him, becoming the seventh prime minister of the United Kingdom in a decade – an unprecedented frequency of change of government in modern Britain. Under Starmer, Labour ended 14 years of Co…

Deepak Tripathi – Fragmented Britain: Seventh Prime Minister in a Decade

British politics has never been the same since Brexit. Deepak Tripathi, PhD, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He blogs at Reflections. Among his latest books is Afghanistan and the Vietnam Syndrome: Comparing US and Soviet Wars (Springer Nature, 2023). Cross-posted from Counterpunch 21/07/2026. London, United Kingdom. Prime Minister Andy Burnham hosts his first we…