{"id":763995,"date":"2026-06-27T16:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763995\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:08:27","slug":"why-did-keir-starmer-have-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/763995\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Keir Starmer have to go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we saw what is almost becoming an annual rite in the UK: the changing of the prime minister outside 10 Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>Sir Keir Starmer is the latest UK PM to bid a tearful farewell.<\/p>\n<p>So why did he have to go, and what should we make of the Labour politician who will succeed him, Andy Burnham?<\/p>\n<p>Guest: Andrew Neil. Formerly chairman of Press Holdings (publisher of The Spectator), editor of Sunday Times, BBC TV anchor and chairman of Sky TV. He is now a columnist and host of The Andrew Neil Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, we saw what is almost becoming an annual rite in the UK: the changing of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[364296,323762,64,63,99,164,5312,6895,181492],"class_list":["post-763995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-andrew-neal","tag-andy-burnham","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-keir-starmer","tag-prime-minister","tag-sir-keir-starmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}