2024-07-05 18:08:22
The Labor leader easily won re-election in his north London constituency, while across the country Labor wrested many seats from Rishi Sunak’s Tories. Grant Shapps, who worked as the United Kingdom’s defense secretary for almost a year, lost his seat in parliament. This is the Conservatives’ biggest loss yet.
Mr Shapps has been an MP since 2005 but lost to the Labor candidate.
Brexiteer Nigel Farage has finally entered the UK Parliament for an eighth term, winning a seat as the candidate for his anti-immigration Reform Party. In his victory speech, he said he planned to “build a mass national movement in the next few years.”
A poll of voters after voting ended at 9pm on Thursday showed Labor leading the way for the first time since 2010. returned to power. They will have a majority of 410 seats and 170 seats in the British Parliament.
Mr. Sunak’s Tories will have only 131 representatives in the 650-seat House of Commons. N. Farage’s party can have up to 13 seats. The smaller opposition Liberal Democrat Party will have 61 seats, while the Scottish National Party, which was the third largest, won just 10 seats.
The leader of the winning party is due to meet the head of state, King Charles III, on Friday morning, who will ask the party’s biggest leader, working-class 61-year-old Starmer, to form a government.
2024-07-05 18:08:22