STARMER’S STRESS BALL

Sunday 21 June 2026

So it looks like it’s finally happening. The thing we have all been waiting for is about to come to pass.

As I write this, Keir Starmer is pacing up and down the halls of his grace-and-favour mansion in the Buckinghamshire countryside – probably for the last time. Chequers has seen plenty of prime ministers come and go, but few have looked as lost as Kei…