"THIS is why Keir Starmer is so hated" | David Starkey Talks... to Steven Barrett

Now that Sir Keir Starmer has shuffled off his political coil, I thought it apt to perform a post-mortem on his premiership with one key question in mind: just why was the man so despised by the great majority of the British people?

It seems like an age ago now, but one must remember that Starmer was presented as a uniquely credible figure to run the country back in 2024. Decades of work in law and the civil service made people believe that he was competent and respectable. Yet the collapse in public esteem was precipitous once he got into office.

We must therefore ask ourselves whether Starmer's phoney credibility in 2024 actually mirrors the phoney credibility of the institutions that cultivated him. Is this empty vessel a product of the emptier vessel that is the legal profession and the civil service from which he was spawned?

We cannot ignore the awful possibility that Starmer's hollowness is in fact the hollowness of the entire British establishment, that same establishment which heralded his inauguration as Prime Minister by telling us Britain would become an "oasis of calm", only to shriek in horror a month later when the country was consumed by rioting in the wake of the Southport atrocity.

To discuss Starmer's unique unlikability and his baleful legacy I'm joined by barrister Steven Barrett, someone well placed to skewer the pretensions of the legal profession who delivered us a Prime Minister as woeful as this.