Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm Rosie Blau.
And I'm Jason Palmer.
Today on the show, how airlines are coping with the fuel shock,
and why some Caribbean islanders label Colombia a colonizer.
But first.
This week, Britain's Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is battling for his political life.
I know that people are frustrated by the state of Britain,
frustrated by politics, and some people frustrated with me.
I know I have my doubts, and I know I need to prove them wrong, and I will.
The Labour Party performed even worse at last week's local elections than some were expecting.
MPs are circling.
One has already said she'll try to trigger a challenge
if no current cabinet ministers do so.
In a speech this morning, the Prime Minister hit every spot on the bingo card of political leadership reset.
We're battling reform and the Greens.
But at a deeper level, we're battling the despair on which they prey.
Fighting words, most of which we've heard before.
But it'll be hard to talk his way out of the events that precipitated this crisis.
Labour suffered a catastrophic set of elections last week,