nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/b4fbefae2fe80665 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260624s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/b4fbefae2fe80665 doi eng 342 23 Capoccia, Giovanni Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7508-0290 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 Verfassungsblog 2026-06-24 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 Keir Starmer Labour Party Party Fragmentation Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/starmer-resignation-liberal-democracy/ raw object