Britain's election, which swept the Labour Party to power in a landslide, also featured eccentric characters and some high-profile Tory casualties.
has met with King Charles at Buckingham Palace and officially accepted the role of Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. After addressing the nation from 10 Downing Street, he entered the residence's famous black door to start work.. With vote counting ongoing, Labour has already won 412 seats in Parliament, versus 121 for the Conservatives — the fewest seats in their history. There are 650 seats.
The pro-independence Scottish National Party has already lost 38 seats, and it's unclear whether the SNP incumbent Drew Hendry can stave off a challenge from Liberal Democrat Angus MacDonald, after exit polls suggested it was too close to call. The Greens took just under 2 million votes, while Reform was the third largest party when it comes to the popular vote, receiving more than 4 million votes. Those numbers suggest that while not enough to take it over the line in more than a handful of seats, Reform's popularity runs deep. Farage's party drew 14% of yesterday's votes, meaning it has seen some success in its bid to draw disillusioned voters away from the Conservative Party.
Keir Starmer's Labour Party won a landslide victory in yesterday's election as far as seats are concerned, but its share of the votes was more mixed.Many will interpret the red tide that has swept across the U.K. as less of a victory for Keir Starmer's Labour party and more of a walloping for the Conservatives. That impression is borne out by the numbers of votes Labour received.
Polling expert John Curtice told NBC News prior to the election that he would not be surprised if voter turnout was low due to the lack of “enthusiasm” for Britain’s options for political leadership.He was speaking from the same spot where, just hours ago, his predecessor Rishi Sunak apologized to the nation and took responsibility for a. Now confirmed as PM, Starmer used his first speech as prime minister to urge the country to move forward together.
He stepped out of the car with his wife, Victoria, to applause from supporters waving miniature Union Jack flags and enthusiastically shook some hands and gave hugs.Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria have arrived at the prime minister's residence at 10 Downing Street after a short journey from Buckingham Palace.
It's an important and historic formality that's part of Britain’s status as a constitutional monarchy. During the meeting, the king will formally ask Starmer to form a new government. For a brief period between Sunak's resignation and Keir Starmer's appointment by the king, the U.K. currently has no prime minister. That won't last long, though. Starmer is expected to visit the palace in the next hour to receive executive responsibility from the monarch.
Sunak has been driven to the palace in a ministerial car, but as he is now prime minister no longer, he will leave the palace privately. He wished the incoming prime minister, Labour leader Keir Starmer, success and called him “a decent, public-spirited man who I respect.”Sunak was appointed prime minister in Oct. 2022, coming into power on the back of multiple scandals that shook the Conservative Party and forced the resignation of the two preceding prime ministers, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
Elsewhere in the U.K., the Conservatives lost their Scottish leader Douglas Ross as Labour picked up seats from both the party in blue and the Scottish National Party. The outgoing party of power also lost all of its seats in Wales, where it had picked up some unlikely victories in recent years. "We’ll now be the largest third-party force in parliament for over 100 years," he told the BBC. As of 09:20 local time the party had won at least 71 seats, a massive jump from 11 seats in the 2019 elections and the highest number since its founding in 1988.
The center-left Labour Party has come under fire for its pro-Israel stance in the Israel-Hamas war, which has had a devastating toll on civilians in the Gaza Strip, with Starmer saying in October that Israel “has the right” to withhold power and water from the densely populated enclave. Jeremy Corbyn — who retained his seat in Islington North as an independent by defeating Labour, a party he formerly led — ran on a staunchly pro-Palestinian platform, and called for a government that “will search for peace not war, and not allow the terrible conditions to go on that are happening in Gaza.”Congratulations are already coming in for Starmer, who is set to succeed Sunak as prime minister after a decisive win by his Labour Party.
With the election result increasingly clear, Prime Minister-elect Keir Starmer must travel to Buckingham Palace to be formally appointed by King Charles III, a ceremonial ritual in Britain’s constitutional democracy. It will be the king’s first post-election appointment, but he has some way to go before he equals the 15 prime ministers who served under his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.
She has since styled herself as a populist who took on the"deep state" during her time in office and she also appeared alongside Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States.The Labour Party is ready to “restore Britain to the service of working people,” Starmer said after the election was called for the center-left party.
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