ground victory for Labor – L’Express

2024-07-04 21:28:18

The British government is turning centre-left: Labor won a landslide victory in the general elections this Thursday, ending 14 years of Conservative power and opening the doors of Downing Street to their leader Keir Starmer. The results are expected to fall every night but the exit polls published at the end of the polling stations leave little doubt about the outcome of this election that opens a new chapter in the political history of the country. According to these British television predictions, Labor will win 410 seats out of 650 in the House of Commons.

If it is a little less than the tide of Tony Blair in 1997 (418), it is ahead of the conservative party of the outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, rejected by voters with only 131 elected representatives. This is a far cry from the 365 Tory MPs elected in the past five years and the party’s worst result since the start of the 20th century. The Liberal Democrats (centrists) will be strong with 61 representatives but the surprise of the election is definitely from the anti-immigration and anti-program Reform UK party: it will win 13 seats, a much more resounding entry than did suitable for the formation of the figure of the hard right Nigel Farage. With the far right likely to rise to power in France and Donald Trump looking good to return to the White House, the British have elected a moderate center-left leader.

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Keir Starmer, a 61-year-old former human rights lawyer, is to be sworn in by King Charles III on Friday with the formation of a new government. “To all those who campaigned for the Labor Party in these elections, to all those who voted for us and those who trusted our new Labor Party, thank you,” Keir Starmer reflected on X. Only nine years after he entered politics and four years after he took the Labor council, he will be faced with a great desire for change. As polls have predicted throughout the campaign, the Conservatives are facing a blow after 14 turbulent years that have left Britons feeling depleted.

Brexit left the country divided and failed to fulfill the promises of its supporters. An increase in prices over the past two years for poor families, with more families than ever relying on food banks for food. Sometimes you have to wait months for medical appointments in the public NHS service. Prisons are at risk of running out of space in the coming days.

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In an atmosphere of mostly fratricidal violence, the political scandals under Boris Johnson and the budget mistakes of Liz Truss, who completed only 49 days in power, have ended up angering voters. In 20 months in Downing Street, their successor Rishi Sunak has not managed to raise a bar in public opinion. He tried a last gamble by calling these elections in July without waiting for the fall as many thought, but his campaign was disastrous. The 44-year-old former investment banker and finance minister piled up mistakes and appeared to lack political savvy, cutting short ahead of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the Normandy landings and delaying a response to suspicions of fraudulent betting in his camp that day. of elections.

On the contrary, Keir Starmer shows his modest origins – mother’s nurse and father’s tool maker – in contrast with his multimillionaire opponent. Not very enthusiastic but determined, he promised to change the country as he did directly Labour, that also did in the economy and fight anti-Semitism: way, without air or worry.