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What Keir Won’t Hear: Does the Prime Minister know how much trouble he’s in? A special report by the New Statesman’s new political editor, Ailbhe Rea, on a week in which Labour’s internal power struggles were exposed public and questions over Keir Starmer’s leadership began being raised in all the wrong places. Plus: