LONDON, July 5, 2024 (TBINN)
Keir Starmer became United Kingdom’s new Prime Minister today and vowed to rebuild Britain, hours after his Labour Party secured a landslide victory in a general election in which the weary voters inflicted a “sobering verdict” on Rishi Sunak-led Conservatives, who suffered their worst electoral drubbing.
Keir Starmer, aged 61, assumed charge as 58th Prime Minister after his customary audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, following Rishi Sunak’s meeting with the British monarch.
The Labour Party secured 412 seats in the 650-member House of Commons, up 211 from the last election in 2019. Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives won just 121 seats, down 250 seats from the previous election. While the Labour had a vote share of 33.7 per cent the Conservatives had 23.7 per cent.
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