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http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/b4fbefae2fe80665 https://verfassungsblog.de/starmer-resignation-liberal-democracy/ A Tale of Our Times - Keir Starmer’s Political Fall Says More About the Predicaments of Liberal Democracy than About Labour’s Failures Capoccia, Giovanni eng 2026-06-24 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Keir Starmer Labour Party Party Fragmentation Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Keir Starmer's resignation only two years after Labour's landslide victory is more than a story about the failures of Labour or Starmer himself. It says something larger about the increasingly difficult conditions under which governments in what were once called “advanced liberal democracies” operate today. Across Europe and beyond, political fragmentation, electoral volatility and the rise of populist challenger parties have made governing considerably harder.