Starmer, the lacklustre Prime Minister of the UK, faced a rebellious vote on his dyability reforms and so he came to a compromise with the rebels which they accepted. News outlets in the UK said this has undermined his authority. They could have said this is democracy in action. They could have asked why he didn’t talk with them first and why allow it to get to the stage where a vote could be lost. It seems that a Prime Minister in the UK must never face losing a vote – somehow that is a challenge to their authority. But to always win a vote is kind of too close to authoritarianism.
Sharing power is what democracy is all about.