Keir Starmer is out as British prime minister, making him the sixth PM felled in the decade since Brexit — and the European press can barely conceal its smugness. But what continental elites call instability, a working-class Briton might call accountability.

Starmer's resignation was announced Monday, exactly ten years to the day after the Brexit vote. Britain is now set for its seventh prime minister since that referendum. The Guardian rounded up European reactions that treated the churn as proof of national decline: Germany's Der Spiegel called Downing Street a