Skip next section Outgoing UK Prime Minister Sunak to formally resign
07/05/2024July 5, 2024
Outgoing UK Prime Minister Sunak to formally resign
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is set to deliver a statement before meeting with British monarch King Charles to formally resign from office after the opposition Labour Party achieved a landslide election win.
Incoming Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is then due to meet Charles at Buckingham Palace to be officially appointed. He is then expected to deliver a speech outside the prime ministerial residence at Downing Street.
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Skip next section Starmer sweeps to power as Tory vote collapses
07/05/2024July 5, 2024
Starmer sweeps to power as Tory vote collapses
With only a handful of seats still to declare in the UK general election, has won 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons, with the outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives on 118.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage was partly behind the Conservative vote collapse, eating away at the party’s vote share from the right with his party’s anti-immigration sentiment. Reform also plugged into some of the Labour vote.
Meanwhile, the Conservatives also hemorrhaged votes on the left to the centrist Liberal Democrats, which appears to have picked up about 70 seats.
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Skip next section Ex-prime minister Truss loses seat
07/05/2024July 5, 2024
Ex-prime minister Truss loses seat
, a Conservative MP who had represented the constituency of Norfolk South West in eastern England, was among the biggest Conservative names to lose their seat in Parliament.
Truss was the UK’s shortest-serving prime minister with only 49 days in office. She was replaced by outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who has governed for nearly two years.
The Conservatives have been in power since 2010 under five different prime ministers and are set to lose government to Labour after suffering a landslide defeat in the UK’s general election.
Eleven Cabinet ministers, easily exceeding the previous record of seven set in 1997.
The included Commons Leader and former leadership candidate Penny Mordaunt, Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.
Former Cabinet minister Jacob Rees-Mogg was also among the most prominent Tory names to lose their seat.
rc/kb (AFP, AP, dpa, Reuters)
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