Starmer was unprepared | Former Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case Exclusive Interview

Simon Case, the former Cabinet secretary, served under David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, and knows exactly why all of them ended up failing. Lord Case’s descriptions of each of the prime ministers he worked for sums up the themes of our interview: Cameron was “a decisive team player”; May “decent but trapped”; Johnson an “amazing communicator” but “a flip-flopping decision-maker”; Truss “too short-lived to tell”; Sunak a “decent, detailed decision-maker” and Starmer “unprepared and apolitical”. Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/26/simon-case-interview-burnham-downing-street/ ► Sign up to the Telegraph's free new daily newsletter, From the Editor, bringing you the latest news, features and analysis from the Telegraph newsroom: www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/secure/newsletter/from-the-editor/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Get the latest headlines: www.telegraph.co.uk?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain ► Stay ahead with a Telegraph digital subscription: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/customer/subscription/store?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_youtube_telegraphmain https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/telegraph are websites of The Telegraph, the UK's best-selling quality daily newspaper providing news and analysis on UK and world events, business, sport, lifestyle and culture.