{"id":518851,"date":"2026-03-12T09:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518851\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:51:07","slug":"the-three-things-keeping-keir-starmer-in-his-job-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518851\/","title":{"rendered":"The three things keeping Keir Starmer in his job \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 \u2013 but strangely, are they also doing him a favour?<\/p>\n<p>The fallout from the first details of Peter Mandelson\u2019s 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\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the Iran war continues to escalate in the Middle East \u2013 pushing oil prices ever higher \u2013 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":"The release of the Mandelson files, war in the Middle East and a fresh cost-of-living crisis are all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[9576,28,101,7672,8454,234437],"class_list":["post-518851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-british-politics","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-keir-starmer","tag-peter-mandelson","tag-politics-at-sam-and-annes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}