Less than two years after the general election that brought Keir Starmer to power, the premier is playing a large part of its political future this Thursday. The United Kingdom celebrates a Polls predict that the party could lose between 1,500 and 2,000 councillors in England's municipal councils; that it will struggle to remain the second political force in the Holyrood Parliament (Scotland); and that it could also lose the Welsh Assembly after a century of dominance. If these polls are confirmed, and the party suffers an unequivocal defeat on all three fronts, the voices already calling for an orderly succession of Starmer