{"id":878,"date":"2026-05-13T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=878"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:42:00","slug":"keir-starmer-unpopular-pm-across-the-board-labour-lacking-clear-programme-coherent-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer &#8216;unpopular PM across the board&#8217;: Labour lacking &#8216;clear programme, coherent government&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Quentin Peel, Associate Fellow with the Europe Programme at Chatham House and former Foreign Editor at the Financial Times. At the centre of his analysis is the precarious position of British Prime Minister\u00a0Keir Starmer, whom Peel suggests is \u201changing on in there\u201d despite initial expectations that he might \u201cbe going within 24 hours.\u201d The paradox, Peel argues, is that Starmer governs with \u201ca huge majority\u201d that is structurally unstable, born not of enthusiasm but of \u201ca disaster for the Conservative Party\u201d under repeated crises involving\u00a0Boris Johnson,\u00a0Liz Truss, and\u00a0Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Quentin Peel, Associate Fellow with the Europe Programme at Chatham House and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}