Why does everyone hate Keir Starmer?
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:08.0 | Today, why does everyone hate Kiyosthama so much? |
| 0:17.0 | In these highly polarized times, dunking on the Prime Minister, this particular Prime Minister, |
| 0:27.6 | is the one thing that seems to unite people in fury, disappointment, loathing. |
| 0:35.6 | And so, as he rolled his sleeves up to address the nation on Monday morning, the weekend after one of the worst election results in Labour's history, Stama had quite the job on his hands. |
| 0:47.3 | The Guardian's Edictia Chacraborti wasn't the only one watching and wincing. |
| 0:53.0 | You know what, Nishim, you get these speeches and they are make or break and everyone's |
| 0:58.2 | meant to be watching them and the fate of the man who runs a country rests upon what |
| 1:03.4 | he's going to say in half an hour and actually no speech can withstand that amount of pressure. |
| 1:09.9 | If after six odd years of Ka Stama's leader of Labour Party and Prime Minister, |
| 1:16.0 | you don't know what a Kea Stama speech sounds like, |
| 1:19.0 | I feel some degree of envy for you, but... |
| 1:22.6 | No, it's Kea Stama, right? |
| 1:24.7 | The Prime Minister and the leader of our party, Kea Starma. |
| 1:33.5 | So he says a bunch of things which he probably means, |
| 1:38.6 | but to most people, I think they sound fairly platitudinous. |
| 1:43.1 | We lost some brilliant Labour representatives. |
| 1:46.0 | That hurts. |
| 1:48.0 | I get it. |
| 1:50.0 | I feel it. |
| 1:51.0 | They're about the need for our children to have more hope in their future than we might feel right now for them. |
| 1:57.0 | They're about labour, making a change, and we made the big calls right, but we've |
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