Before Downing Street, the outgoing PM built his reputation at the CPS – where some of Britain’s ugliest scandals were buried, delayed, or erased As Keir Starmer prepares to leave the UK’s highest office after less than two years, the media has lined up to explain why he failed to deliver on the enormous hype he received as opposition leader and during his initial months in office. A repeated trope has been that Starmer was a “decent man,”  but simply not cut out for mainstream politics.