{"id":471265,"date":"2026-03-12T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471265\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:24:08","slug":"the-three-things-keeping-keir-starmer-in-his-job-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/471265\/","title":{"rendered":"The three things keeping Keir Starmer in his job | Politics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" https:\/\/podfollow.com\/politics-at-sam-and-annes\">\ud83d\udc49Listen to Politics At Sam And Anne&#8217;s on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The release of the Mandelson files, war in the Middle East and a fresh cost-of-living crisis are all causing turmoil for the prime minister &#8211; but strangely, are they also doing him a favour?<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the first details of Peter Mandelson&#8217;s departure from Washington have already exposed the cracks between Sir Keir Starmer and some advisors. With thousands more emails, messages and WhatsApps to come, this could be just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>But Sam and Anne assess how a lack of obvious successors might actually shore up the PM&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the Iran war continues to escalate in the Middle East &#8211; pushing oil prices ever higher &#8211; Sam hears from government sources that contingency planning is already under way to soften the blow if energy bills surge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc49Listen to Politics At Sam And Anne&#8217;s on your podcast app\ud83d\udc48 The release of the Mandelson files, war&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471266,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-471265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}