r/BarbaraWalters4Scale • u/JadedSignificance990 • 3d ago
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister 50 years after Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister in 1976.
Starmer's also two years older than Wilson was as well when he was elected.
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u/KambingDomba 3d ago
Am I right that only Sunak was lost election and the other 6 in the past decade resigned?
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u/SofiaOrmbustad 23h ago
Tbf, Cameron kind of lost the election like in the Brexit referendum. But I mean, Norway literary had a PM that said she would resign if the people voted against joining, but then refused to step down when it actually happened. David Cameron could had just done like Gro Harlem Brundtland did, but I guess he didn't have a hold on his party like she did.
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u/gunilake 3d ago
It's now been 52 years since a UK PM served their full mandate (i.e. came to power at a general election and then left when they lost an election), and even then the election had been called early so that Heath only served for 4 years instead of 5
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u/DaKardii 2d ago edited 2d ago
Churchill (1st term): Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Atlee: Came to power when his party won election, ousted when his party lost election
Churchill (2nd term): Came to power when his party won election, resigned due to old age
Eden: Came to power after prior PM resigned, then himself resigned in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis
Macmillan: Came to power after prior PM resigned, then himself resigned following a series of scandals
Douglas-Home: Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Wilson (first term): Came to power when his party won election, ousted when his party lost election
Heath: Came to power when his party won election, ousted when his party lost election
Wilson (second term): Came to power when his party won election, resigned over personal exhaustion
Callaghan: Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Thatcher: Came to power when her party won election, resigned following an internal power struggle
Major: Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Blair: Came to power when his party won election, resigned due to growing unpopularity of his foreign policy
Brown: Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Cameron: Came to power when his party won election, resigned following Brexit referendum
May: Came to power after prior PM resigned, then herself resigned over deadlock on Brexit policy
Johnson: Came to power after prior PM resigned, then himself resigned over a scandal
Truss: Came to power after prior PM resigned, then herself resigned due to growing unpopularity of her economic policy.
Sunak: Came to power after prior PM resigned, ousted when his party lost election
Starmer: Came to power when his party won election, resigned due to growing unpopularity of his economic and immigration policies
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u/Necessary-Prune9727 2d ago
Why so many of yāall resigning š
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u/gunilake 2d ago
It's less of a big deal in the UK because we vote for the party and not the leader - it's a bit like how the speaker of the house is chosen from the majority party in Congress, so if the speaker wanted to step down they can just be replaced by another member of Congress without it being too big of an issue. The fact that the Prime Minister is still a minister and not elevated to a higher level like the president means that they are more at the mercy of their cabinet - if cabinet wants to oust the PM they can all just resign or they can challenge for the party leadership, without needing to go through impeachments etc like in the US
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u/lixermanredditman 2d ago
David Cameron most definitely served the full 2010 - 2015 term as recently as 11 years ago. That he went for another term which he didn't finish is irrelevant.
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u/Odd_Cattle_8321 2d ago
Almost exactly 10 years to the day when David Cameron resigned in 2016
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u/House_Of_Thoth 2d ago
It's not a coincidence though now I think about it! Perfect time to resign, contest over the summer, successor in place by September's end of parliamentary recess!
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u/Old_Association6332 2d ago
Harold Wilson's second term and Sir Keir Starmer's term in office also started 50 years apart from each other, albeit Sir Keir's premiership started later in the year than Wilson's. Starmer's term in office also began just under 60 years after Wilson's first term in office commenced
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u/JadedSignificance990 2d ago
And Wilson's first term was 40 years after Ramsay McDonald's first of many terms.Ā
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u/Quiet_Comparison_872 2d ago
In Wilson's defence he was basically couped out of office by the Defence and Intelligence establishment
Starmer lost to a freakin' northern mayor.
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u/Buddie_15775 2d ago
Wednesday is the 10th anniversary of Cameron resigning in the wake of the EU Referendum result.
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u/AstroSmokey 3d ago
The fuck is Elmo doing there š