Starmer was unprepared | Former Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case Exclusive Interview

By The Telegraph

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Simon Case, the former Cabinet secretary, served under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, and knows exactly why all of them ended up failing. Lord Case’s descriptions of each of the prime ministers he worked for sums up the themes of our interview: Cameron was “a decisive team player”; May “decent but trapped”; Johnson an “amazing communicator” but “a flip-flopping decision-maker”; Truss “too short-lived to tell”; Sunak a “decent, detailed decision-maker” and Starmer “unprepared and apolitical”. Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/26/simon-case-interview-burnham-downing-street/ ► Sign up to the Telegraph's free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/from-the-editor/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_te

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