Starmer's hollow victory: He won the UK election but not the popular vote

In this op-ed video, Peter Oborne explains how the general election was not quite the great victory it seemed for Keir Starmer.
Labour has secured one of the largest parliamentary majorities in British political history, but with a pitifully low share of the vote.
Labour is set to poll about 34 percent, not even two percentage points more than Jeremy Corbyn scored in 2019 and significantly less than the 40 percent that Corbyn scored in 2017.
To put it another way, thanks to the second lowest turnout since 1885, scarcely 20 percent of eligible British voters support Keir Starmer’s Labour.
Yet, he will end up with approximately two-thirds of all parliamentary seats.
"The collapse in Labour's vote share is the direct result of Starmer’s calculated decision to run a passionless, risk-free campaign aimed at securing the support of big business, the pro-war British establishment, and the Murdoch press," says Oborne.
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