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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Saturday on his first full day in office that he is scrapping a controversial Conservative policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda as he vowed to get change in motion, though he warned it will take time. “The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started,” Starmer said in his first news conference. “It’s never acted as a deterrent. Almost the opposite.” The announcement was widely expected because Starmer said he would ditch the plan that has cost hundreds of millions of dollars but never taken flight. The news conference followed his first Cabi...
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Lawmakers for the UK's Labour Party arrived at 10 Downing Street on Friday as the country's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer named his new Cabinet. The party's deputy leader Angela Rayner has been appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, the first senior politician to be appointed by Starmer. Rayner, who has served as Starmer's deputy party leader since 2020, will also take the role of the Secretary for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. She has often spoken about her tough background growing up in a deprived public housing block and leaving school early as a young mother. She started her career...
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Keir Starmer became the UK’s first left-leaning leader in 14 years — and at the exact moment that Britain is abandoning its biggest experiment in nationalist populism, its closest allies are taking the plunge. Whether it be French nationalists proudly comparing themselves to Nazis or Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s declaration that there is no place for Islamic culture in Europe, today’s nationalist-populist politicians are feeding on the fears of vulnerable people and demonising those who dare to stand out. And yet, in the same breath, they are eroding the security of their own nation...
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Sir Keir Starmer’s resurgent UK Labour party has torpedoed the Conservatives 14-year tenure of government, leading the UK leftwards against the grain of mainland Europe’s surge to the far right. On the surface, that’s what Labour’s 174-seat House of Commons majority suggests. The commanding seat majority was built on a sparse 35% share of the vote, however, and behind each of the UK’s 650 constituencies, a nuanced picture emerged. Nigel Farage’s win in Clacton was one of four seats seized by his Reform Party, with another currently in recount. Though some way off the 13 seats predicted by the ...
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UK election: Scottish nationalists collapse and Tories decimated in Wales Scotland’s industrial belt has returned to Labour amid a collapse in support for the Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), while Wales has booted out the defeated Conservative party in a momentous realignment of UK regional politics. The SNP, which won all but three of 59 constituencies north of the border in 2015, has dropped from 47 to just nine seats, although a recount was underway in the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire constituency with the result not expected until Saturday (6 July). Meanwhile, Labour’s nationwide ...
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Irish nationalist party Sinn Féin’s leader has hinted at a future unified Ireland after it became the largest party in Northern Ireland thanks to a drubbing suffered by the Democratic Unionist Party, although it failed to add to the seven of 18 constituencies it already held. “The message of the people of the north of Ireland to the British government tonight is that change is happening, it is time to plan, it is time to prepare for a new future together on this island,” Sinn Féin leader and member of the Irish parliament in Dublin Mary Lou McDonald said today. The DUP went into yesterday’s ge...
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Britain’s Labour Party has won the UK general election in a “landslide” victory. It was one of the biggest wins in the centre-left Labour’s history, as opposed to monumental losses for the Conservatives who have been in power for 14 years. In his first speech as Prime Minister, Keir Starmer said he plans to “restore service and respect to politics” and called his work “urgent”. But does he consider the climate crisis to be an urgent priority? Labour will be sharing Parliament with the Liberal Democrats who won 71 seats, bouncing back as the third-largest party in Parliament for the first time ...
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“Change begins now,” the UK's new prime minister, 61-year-old Sir Keir Starmer, promised supporters as dawn broke in London on Friday. With only two seats yet to be decided in the 650-seat House of Commons, Labour has won a thumping majority of 412 seats after gaining 211 seats. The right wing Conservative party of the former government now has only 121 seats - a 250 seat loss - and the centrist Liberal Democrat party has 71, a 63 seat gain. The outgoing prime minister Rishi Sunak told supporters in his Richmond constituency - where he was re-elected as an MP - that he would shoulder the burde...
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The survey questioned more than 750 UK investors who owned portfolios worth more than £25,000 (€29,527), apart from other savings, residential property and pensions. Some 47% of investors were happy with their portfolio performance in the past year, while just 40% were optimistic about their investments’ prospects in the next year. Soaring inflation, ongoing geopolitical conflicts and the UK’s current uncertain economic and political situation were all highlighted as the key reasons for portfolios performing disappointingly so far. Some 32% of investors revealed that higher interest rates had ...
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In a seismic shift for the UK's political landscape, the Labour Party has secured a landslide victory in the 2024 general election, winning 410 seats and marking a significant increase of 212 seats from the 2019 elections. After being invited to form a government by the UK's Head of State, King Charles, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer will head to 10 Downing Street, ending the Conservatives' 14-year tenure. The Conservative Party has experienced a dramatic loss, reducing their representation to just 119 seats, a decrease of 249 seats. The Liberal Democrats have made notable gains, securing 71...
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