Suzanne Harrington: Starmer brings glimmers of hope, but time will tell

I've seen nine prime ministers while living in Britain, Starmer is the tenth to move into Number 10

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer poses outside of Parliament Buildings, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, in Stormont, east of Belfast, on July 8, 2024. Pic: Liam McBurney/AFP

I’ve been an Irish citizen resident in Britain for nine prime ministers now. 

I caught the last three years of Thatcher, seven years of Major, a decade of Blair, seven of Brown, six of Cameron, three of May, three of Johnson (you can see the downward trajectory here) five minutes of Truss, during which time my mortgage repayments jumped from £800 (€945) a month to £1,800 (€2,130) a month, so that to avoid losing my house I had to rent out all the rooms and move into the garden cabin (cheers, Liz); then two years of Sunak the hedge fund manager involved with the 2008 financial crash.