"It was easy to forget, they said, given how many Tory leaders the party cycled through but prime ministers were not that easy to dislodge. Theresa May's predicament is a useful point of comparison. She lost a majority, lost multiple Commons votes on her flagship policy, lost dozens of ministers and cabinet ministers, had members of her own party selling chuck Chequers badges at her party conference, and narrowly survived a confidence vote before she was finally ousted."
"Everyone in Westminster has their different theory about how things went so bad so quickly: Starmer's aloofness towards his MPs, the early harshness of the whipping system, unforced errors such as the winter fuel allowance cut or wardrobes furnished by Waheed Alli. Some blame the assisted dying vote as the first moment MPs got a taste for rebelling against the prime minister and organising their own internal whipping systems."
Keir Starmer faces intense leadership speculation amid historic low polling, but he and his allies signal intent to resist any challenge and remain in post. Rivals and cabinet allies circulate briefings to remind would-be challengers that Starmer will stay and fight. Comparisons are drawn with Theresa May's prolonged struggle to be removed despite losing a majority, votes and ministers. Westminster attributes Starmer's rapid decline to factors such as perceived aloofness, harsh early whipping, policy errors like the winter fuel allowance cut, wardrobe controversies, and the assisted dying vote that encouraged backbench rebellion and internal organising.
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