Keir Starmer braces for his week from hell – POLITICO

LONDON — If you thought Keir Starmer was in trouble now, just wait for Thursday’s elections.

The opinion polls would have to be “dramatically out” for the British PM — already hit by dire favorability ratings, a scandal over his pick for U.S. ambassador, and deep disenchantment among his own MPs — to avoid a terrible set of results in nationwide votes held May 7, top psephologist John Curtice, a professor at the University of Strathclyde, says.

With local votes taking place across swathes of England, and crucial national tests in Scotland and Wales looming, here are five potential flashpoints that could significantly increase the prime minister’s political vulnerability — and even tip him out of No.10 Downing Street less than two years after he swept to power on a landslide.