Person
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The assessment covers employment and renters' rights, NHS reform, asylum policy, human-rights obligations, arms-export decisions and the exercise of executive responsibility since July 2024.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Current published result
The government has produced material improvements in labour, housing and health policy. The result is reduced by continuing concerns over asylum, detention and human-rights protections. The short period assessed produces a wide uncertainty range.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
The assessment records major employment-rights legislation, the abolition of no-fault eviction, additional NHS activity and the suspension of arms-export licences where the government identified a clear risk of serious humanitarian-law breaches.
The principal negative evidence concerns unresolved asylum and detention safeguards, proposals to weaken aspects of European human-rights protection and a political approach to migration that may prioritise deterrence over individual dignity.
Read the full Keir Starmer ethical assessment, evidence and sources
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
2024–2026 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile