Global Profile: Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

Not Boring—British and the best bet for stability in the chaotic west

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To many Americans, Keir Starmer seems dull, lawyerly, polite—forgettable. But that perception says more about American political culture than it does about Starmer himself.

Starmer represents something profoundly un-American: competent restraint. And that may be exactly what Europe—and the…