analysis Britain’s PM can't contain the damage after disastrous election. But ousting him will create a huge mess Published May 12, 2026 3:10PM (EDT) Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives a speech at Coin Street Community Centre in London, May 11, 2026. (Carl Court/Getty Images) Britain’s embattled prime minister, Keir Starmer, faces a worsening political crisis that may force him from power, days after his ruling Labour Party suffered crushing losses in local and regional elections throughout England, Scotland and Wales. You could call this a startling reversal, given that Labour won an enormous parliamentary majority in the British general election less than two years ago. But Starmer’s popularity cratered almost as soon as he took office, and he has looked doomed, haunted and fatally indecisive for at least the past year. As I wrote a few days ago, the inevitable comparisons to Joe Biden are deeply unfair (to Biden).…