In the next 24 hours, new ministers will be appointed and the direction of the new Government will be clarified.
“Change begins now,” he promised. the labor leader, Sir Keir Starmer, to his supporters, in the early hours of Friday in London. After a ceremonial ‘hand kiss’ with King Charles III, Starmer, has officially become prime minister and can form a Government.
With only two seats to be decided in the House of Commons, which has 650 deputies, Labor has won a overwhelming majority of 412 seats after doubling the support received in the previous UK elections.
The rightist Conservative Partywhich had been in the Government for 14 years, now has only 121 seats, has lost a whopping 250 deputies. The centrist Liberal Democratic Party has 71 seats after winning 63 representatives.
Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signaled his supporters in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency, where was re-elected deputywho would assume the weight of his party’s historic loss.
Sunak then returned to the 10 Downing Street, which since 1735 has been both the residence and office of the British prime ministers. Of all the political leaderships in the world, only the White House, in the United States, is probably more famous than the English one.
In his final speech as Prime Minister, Sunak declared himself honored to lead the “greatest nation in the world”, and said the British people had “delivered a sobering verdict“.
He then visited Buckingham Palace, where he formally presented his resignation to King Charles III, a historic formality, since although the monarch is the head of the state, has no real power in political processes from United Kingdom.
Even so, Carlos III holds weekly meetings with the prime minister to discuss government matters. Although the monarch is politically neutral, he still has the right to “advise and warn” the prime minister if he deems it necessary.
Following an ancient tradition, the monarch has asked Starmer to form a new Government. Shortly afterwards, Starmer entered 10 Downing Street for the first time to begin form your new government team.
The king will return to the public scene at the end of this month for the opening of Parliament. Then, at a joint meeting of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, will deliver a speech written for himby the incoming Government, in which it will present its legislative program.
National renewal
Starmer stated that his political objectives for the next five years will focus on putting “the country first, the party later” and that the Government will focus on “national renewal.”
“We have to return politics to public service,” he said.
The Labor Manifesto, a document that sets out the party’s political priorities, lists five objectives for political training. Among them: boosting economic growth, promote clean energyreduce violent crime, reform education, and improve and invest in the weakened National Health Service.
For the first time in 14 years, the Labor Party can score the political agenda, but both the political party and Starmer face enormous challenges. The former lawyer and Director of Public Prosecutions, who is 61 years old, must face a nation impatient for changein a context of gloomy economic conditions, growing distrust in State institutions and a frayed social fabric.
Labour’s Rachel Reeves, who will become the UK’s first chancellor of the economy, said she has “no illusions” about the magnitude of the challenge which he will face. “The inheritance of the Conservatives It’s really terrible,” he told reporters.
Reeves noted that the UK’s debt burden represents 100% of the country’s national income, and that the fiscal pressure is at its highest point in seven decades. Reeves said he “can’t promise to change everything immediately” but that the main mission of an incoming Labor Government will be to boost economic growth.
Despite this, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London, stated that british votersthey should be calm due to the relative stability of the new Government.
Voters should be encouraged, he said, “by ministers staying in power for quite some time, and by the Government’s ability to think beyond the short termin medium-term objectives,” he stated.
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