On Monday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned from office. His tenure in 10 Downing Street came to just under two years, and it will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.  He displayed an astonishing lack of political nous on a wide variety of issues – ranging from the idiotic decision to cut the winter fuel allowance to his infamous speech about the UK becoming “an island of strangers”.   The decision to reduce and remove the winter fuel allowance displayed a stunning sense of political naivety, losing huge quantities of political capital for minuscule budget savings. More than anything,…

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