1 of 2 | King Charles III receives Keir Starmer inside Buckingham Palace on Friday for a so-called “kissing the hands” ceremony, requesting him to form a new administration of the United Kingdom. Stamer accepted and was appointed prime minister and first lord of the treasury. Photo via The Royal Family/UPI | License Photo July...
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Keir Starmer takes power as British PM after Labour Party’s historic election win | CBC News
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he would lead a “government of service” on a mission of national renewal in his first official remarks Friday, after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide victory after more than a decade in opposition. Starmer acknowledged in his first speech outside 10 Downing Street that many people...
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Keir Starmer pledges government of national service in first address
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Exit poll: UK voters punish Conservatives after 14-year rule, hand Labour landslide win
General Election 2024: June 26 round-up A daily round-up as the UK is set to go to the polls for a July 4 election. PA Media – News LONDON − Britain’s center-left Labour Party was set to comfortably win a historic general election, an exit poll showed, ousting the Conservative Party by a huge margin...
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Exit poll suggests huge majority for Labour in U.K. election | CBC News
Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in Britain’s election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric. The poll, released moments after voting closed in the parliamentary election, indicated that Labour Leader Keir Starmer will be the country’s...
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UK general election live: Polls open in historic vote as Britain has its say on Starmer and Sunak
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Britain is in danger of becoming a global irrelevance
No sooner will our new Government have been formed after today’s general election than it will find itself facing intense scrutiny over its likely approach to the many global challenges that lie ahead. First stop for the newly-elected prime minister will be a visit to Washington DC on Tuesday to attend the 75th anniversary celebrations...
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Polls suggest Fourth of July landslide for Labor Party in Britain’s general election – UPI.com
Keir Starmer’s Labor Party is likely to win a huge majority in a Fourth of July general election landslide Thursday, according to polls. They show Labor gaining the largest single-party majority in Parliament since 1832. File Photo by Tolga Akmen/EPA-EFE July 3 (UPI) — Britain’s Labor Party is expected to win the biggest majority of...
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General election 2024 polls: Latest UK tracker
A month of frenzied campaigning has passed since Rishi Sunak fired the starting gun on a July general election, with tomorrow’s vote looming, time has all but run out for his party to engineer a desperately needed reversal in fortune if they are to remain in power. Labour has been comfortably ahead in the polls...
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How did it go so wrong for Britain’s Conservatives?
If you’re looking for electoral suspense, don’t look across the pond. Barring a polling error of world historic proportions, 14 years of Conservative rule will come to an end in the United Kingdom on July 4. The question isn’t whether Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s party will lose, it’s whether anything will be left of them...
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American and British voters share deep roots. In 2024, they distrust their own leaders, too
DARTFORD – Distrust has settled over the campaign trails in the United States and United Kingdom ahead of July 4 like a soggy summer haze. On that day, British voters will choose a new Parliament in an election expected to finish with a Labour government after 14 years under the Conservatives. Americans across the pond,...
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Tory Remainers are the authors of their party’s defeat
The oddity of European politics is that Britain is moving sharply to the Left while most of the Continent is moving even further to the Right. In Britain, young people and even the middle aged are abandoning Conservatism. Elsewhere in Europe, the young are the pillars of a radical Right-wing upsurge. On the Continent, the...