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Briefing|Friday Briefing: Labour Projected to Win U.K. Election
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/briefing/labour-wins-british-election.html
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Labour expected to triumph British predetermination successful a landslide
Britain’s Labour Party was projected to triumph a landslide predetermination triumph yesterday, sweeping the Conservative Party retired of powerfulness aft 14 years.
An exit canvass conducted for the BBC and 2 different broadcasters predicted that Labour won 410 seats to the Tories’ 131 successful the 650-member House of Commons. Here’s the latest.
The results were a stroke for the Tories and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Britain’s electorate showed its weariness with a turbulent epoch that spanned austerity, Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the serial scandals of erstwhile Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the ill-fated tax-cutting proposals of his successor, Liz Truss.
“It is simply a classical anti-incumbent vote,” said Mark Landler, our London bureau chief. “British voters are hopeless for a change.”
“They’re not persuaded that the Labour Party tin present radically antithetic results than the Conservatives,” Landler added, “but astatine this point, they’re consenting to instrumentality the chance.”
Keir Starmer, the Labour person who is acceptable to go the adjacent premier minister, volition beryllium faced with problems that galore British voters interest are intractable. They see immigration, fixing the National Health Service — which is profoundly underfunded and faces chronic staffing shortages — and righting the economy, which is struggling with precocious ostentation that is contributing to a outgo of surviving crisis.
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