UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, during his first televised interview after declaring he would step down, asserted that his Labour Party had secured a parliamentary majority only three times—in 1945, 1997, and 2024. Fact-checkers subsequently noted this statement is inaccurate, pointing out that Labour has actually achieved a majority in nine general elections, under four distinct leaders. These include victories by Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, and Tony Blair while the party was already governing, as well as an opposition-to-government win in 1964 that Starmer did not mention. The misstatement matters because it involves the prime minister getting a basic electoral fact wrong about his own party’s history.