When the leadership is deemed lame


Leader and the led: Newly minted Labour PM Starmer (left) and Conservative leader Sunak heading for the State Opening of Parliament in Westminster on Wednesday. Pundits are saying Labour didn’t win the elections, the Conservatives lost it. — AP

It might not have been the political party that lost the elections; it might have been the party’s leaders people were fed up with who led their party to ruin.

ONE of the obvious takeaways from the recent UK elections is that the majority of the British electorate was fed up with the Conservatives.

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