Keir Starmer won a landslide and still couldn’t survive

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That was fast.

Less than two years after leading Labour to a huge election victory, Keir Starmer is resigning as prime minister and Labour leader.

For months, the warning signs were there.

Labour’s disastrous local election results in May shook the party.

Then came the rumours.

MPs started talking.

Cabinet figures started distancing themselves.

Party insiders who were supposed to protect leaders started preparing for life after Starmer.

Once that happens, the clock is usually ticking.

The strange part is that Starmer did not lose a general election.

He did not suffer some historic parliamentary defeat.

He is leaving with a massive majority in the House of Commons.

That is what makes this collapse so unusual.

A leader who won one of the biggest victories in modern British politics ended up losing the confidence of his own side.

Now attention is turning to Andy Burnham, who just posted a strong result in the Makerfield by-election and is already being talked about as the favourite to take over.

The bigger story may be what this says about modern politics.

Winning power is one thing.

Keeping it is another.

Britain is now heading toward its seventh prime minister in ten years.