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After a mad week, Labour is hopefully seeing sense: Starmer needs to stay | Simon Jenkins
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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It's an opinion piece and the thing about opinion pieces is that it can be totally stupid.
For what it's worth from a party unity perspective it would be better if he went now, the closer it gets to the election the more damage it does to the party when he neverably does leave. He should only stay if they are confident he can make it through to the election. It's no chance of that happening.
If he gets replaced then there is quite a lot of time still before the next election for his successor to fix things. If they wait until 18 months before the election there won't be.
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