Show Notes
Keir Starmer is stepping down as the UK’s Prime Minister, less than two years after winning the election with a landslide victory.
Between 1979 and 2016, Britain had five prime ministers in 37 years… and since 2016, it has had six in roughly a decade. So is the UK political system broken, or is this chaos exactly what the parliamentary model was designed to do?
Bianca Nobilo looks back at three centuries of the history behind the headlines to determine if this is a constitutional crisis - or the system working exactly as intended.
00:00 Why can't Britain keep a Prime Minister? 02:09 Assassination of Spencer Perceval 03:28 Shortest tenure: From George Canning to Liz Truss 05:44 What's different today? 2016 - 2026 07:03 What's causing the chaos? 10:14 Is Britain broken? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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