Keir Starmer Certain To Become UK PM As Labour Party Wins Election In A Landslide
Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, are greeted at his constituency count at Holborn and St Pancras
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain woke Friday to the scene of a political earthquake. The opposition Labour Party, after 14 years in the political wilderness, has handed a brutal defeat to the ruling Conservatives.
Party leader Keir Starmer is now certain to become prime minister in the coming hours, replacing his Conservative Party counterpart, Rishi Sunak, who has presided over one of the worst electoral losses in British political history.
“We did it,” Starmer told a cheering crowd in an early-morning speech in central London. “You voted for it and now it has arrived. Change begins now.”
He thanked voters, saying they had changed Great Britain.
“A weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed from the shoulders of this great nation, and now we can look forward again,” he said.
As election night rolled through the small hours, the scale of Labour’s win sharpened into focus. A reliable exit poll published late Thursday found Labour on course to win 410 seats — just eight short of its highest-ever total.
The election was called for Labour around 5 a.m. local time (12 a.m. ET), by which time the party had secured the 326 seats necessary for a parliamentary majority.
The polls indicated a catastrophic election for the Conservatives, who were projected to win the fewest seats in their history, at 131.
Unlike the U.S., Britain has no monthslong transition.
At some point Friday morning, Starmer will head to Buckingham Palace to be appointed prime minister by King Charles III, a formality in Britain’s constitutional monarchy.
News helicopters will follow his car as it wends its way through London’s ancient streets, flanked by police outriders. It will be Charles’ first post-election prime ministerial appointment, a private meeting that typically lasts just 30 minutes.
His late mother, Queen Elizabeth II, saw 15 leaders come and go during her 70-year reign.
Meanwhile, Sunak and his family will leave No. 10 Downing St., where the prime minister lives and works. Traditionally the outgoing leader leaves a handwritten note wishing his successor luck.
The Starmers will move in soon after, with Starmer giving his first speech to the nation as prime minister at a lectern outside the residence’s famous black door.
He is likely to acknowledge that things will not be easy for Labour.
The party inherits a stagnant economy, crumbling public services, rising child poverty and homelessness, and a National Health Service that, though taxpayer-funded and beloved, has become decrepit and dysfunctional.
Meanwhile, prisons are about to overflow, and some city and regional governments are about to go bankrupt or have already done so. Several colleges also look likely to go bust.
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on Jul 5 2024. Filed under National.
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