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Why Musk’s barbs are more blows for Starmer

Britain’s PM lurches from one self-inflicted mini-crisis to the next. He might say he’s playing a long game, but is he digging a hole too deep to climb out of?

London | A local publican’s online petition for Britain to hold a fresh election, not even five months since Labour leader Keir Starmer won the last one, is fast approaching 3 million signatures. And more than 10 times that many people have viewed Elon Musk’s X post about it.

The petition is a metaphorical flag planted squarely in the cold embers of Sir Keir’s political honeymoon as his fledgling government staggers from one self-inflicted crisis to the next.

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Hans van Leeuwen is The Australian Financial Review’s former Europe correspondent. He is now International Economy editor for The Telegraph UK.

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