Enda Brady: It was the lack of hope which killed Starmer’s premiership

If Labour don't get it right this time, Nigel Farage will be measuring curtains for No 10 Downing Street before they know it 

British prime minister Keir Starmer started off by telling them that things would get worse before they would get better. That was probably the first bad move of his premiership. File picture

They say it’s the hope that kills you, but in the curious case of Keir Starmer, it was the lack of hope. His time in No 10 Downing Street is now coming to end and for millions across Britain, it can’t come soon enough.

More than anything, the British people wanted something to believe in, someone to offer at least a glimmer of hope that their lives — and the cost of living — would get better.