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Starmer's government is following the path of the recent Conservative administrations in terms of ministerial resignations

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Kier Starmer frequently gets accused of acting like a Tory. And here’s one more way in which that’s true!

Auto-generated description: A chart shows the cumulative ministerial resignations outside reshuffles from 1979 to 2026, with different trajectories for UK Prime Ministers such as Johnson, Truss, Sunak, Blair, and others.

Chart courtesy of the Institute for Government.

I’m very curious whether this is a general property of modern-day politics also seen in other countries, or whether we’ve had a particularly incompetent set of either Prime or other Ministers in recent years. I have my suspicions.