UK General Election to be on 4th July
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Labour have won but results are still coming in.
Green co-leader Ramsay gains Waveney Valley from the Conservatives.
BBC polling expert
With all the seats declared in Wales, the Tories have lost every single one they were defending, taking them back to the zero seats to which they fell in 1997.
Green co-leader Ramsay gains Waveney Valley from the Conservatives.
Tories wiped out in Wales
Professor Sir John CurticeBBC polling expert
With all the seats declared in Wales, the Tories have lost every single one they were defending, taking them back to the zero seats to which they fell in 1997.
Bizarre.
Despite winning with a huge majority, just look at Labour's vote percentage...
With more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:
Labour - 35% (+2)
Conservatives - 24% (-21)
Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)
Reform - 15% (+13)
Green - 7% (+4)
This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.
Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.
Despite winning with a huge majority, just look at Labour's vote percentage...
Labour set to win with 35% share of the vote
Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expertWith more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:
Labour - 35% (+2)
Conservatives - 24% (-21)
Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)
Reform - 15% (+13)
Green - 7% (+4)
This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.
Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.
Rachel Reeves is first female chancellor and Angela Rayner made deputy PM
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is appointing his top team, with Yvette Cooper as home secretary and David Lammy as foreign secretary.
www.bbc.co.uk
Bizarre.
Despite winning with a huge majority, just look at Labour's vote percentage...
With more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:
Labour - 35% (+2)
Conservatives - 24% (-21)
Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)
Reform - 15% (+13)
Green - 7% (+4)
This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.
Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.
Despite winning with a huge majority, just look at Labour's vote percentage...
Labour set to win with 35% share of the vote
Professor Sir John Curtice
BBC polling expertWith more than 580 seats now declared, the BBC is forecasting that the final vote share across Great Britain will be:
Labour - 35% (+2)
Conservatives - 24% (-21)
Liberal Democrats - 12% (0)
Reform - 15% (+13)
Green - 7% (+4)
This will be by far the worst Conservative performance ever in terms of vote share.
Labour's vote is slightly below that secured by Tony Blair in 2005 and will be the lowest share of the vote won by any single party majority government.
Rachel Reeves is first female chancellor and Angela Rayner made deputy PM
Prime Minister Keir Starmer is appointing his top team, with Yvette Cooper as home secretary and David Lammy as foreign secretary.
www.bbc.co.uk
Blackie, sounds like France is having some kind’a election now also. Being closer physically to that than the rest of us, can you offer some insight on their riots, etc…?
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election on Sunday (Monday AEST), according to projections from two polling companies.
France has been shaken by the prospect of the “far-right” taking control of the government after spending more than 50 years keeping it at bay. It’s forced several other parties that had been at each other’s throats to swallow their animosity and come up with a largely unified electoral front in order to see off the threat, etc…
www.afr.com
Le Pen set to fall short of French majority: polls
Two polls show that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party will not secure an absolute majority in the second round of French elections.
Blackie, sounds like France is having some kind’a election now also. Being closer physically to that than the rest of us, can you offer some insight on their riots, etc…?
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally is set to fall well short of an absolute majority in the French legislative election on Sunday (Monday AEST), according to projections from two polling companies.
France has been shaken by the prospect of the “far-right” taking control of the government after spending more than 50 years keeping it at bay. It’s forced several other parties that had been at each other’s throats to swallow their animosity and come up with a largely unified electoral front in order to see off the threat, etc…
Le Pen set to fall short of French majority: polls
Two polls show that Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally party will not secure an absolute majority in the second round of French elections.
Same as it is here: Millions fed up of a centrist government treating its people with contempt and not listening to their concerns. Le Pen's party got closer to getting into power than Farage's party but Farage's party is only four years old. Le Pen and Farage should work together.
Here is the score with just two seats of the 650 left to declare.
Labour: 412 (+211)
Conservatives: 121 (-250)
Liberal Democrats: 71 (+63)
SNP: 9 (-38)
Sinn Fein: 7 (no change)
Independent: 6 (+6)
DUP: 5 (-3)
Reform UK: 4 (+4)
Green: 4 (+3)
Plaid Cymru: 4 (+2)
SDLP: 2 (no change)
Alliance Party: 1 (no change)
UUP: 1 (+1)
TUV: 1 (+1)
People continue to gather outside Downing Street under Union Jack umbrellas on a rainy July morning - almost midday - as they wait for Starmer to arrive after he meets the King to be appointed the me PM.
Starmer will be only the seventh Labour Prime Minister.
Labour: 412 (+211)
Conservatives: 121 (-250)
Liberal Democrats: 71 (+63)
SNP: 9 (-38)
Sinn Fein: 7 (no change)
Independent: 6 (+6)
DUP: 5 (-3)
Reform UK: 4 (+4)
Green: 4 (+3)
Plaid Cymru: 4 (+2)
SDLP: 2 (no change)
Alliance Party: 1 (no change)
UUP: 1 (+1)
TUV: 1 (+1)
People continue to gather outside Downing Street under Union Jack umbrellas on a rainy July morning - almost midday - as they wait for Starmer to arrive after he meets the King to be appointed the me PM.
Starmer will be only the seventh Labour Prime Minister.
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Who is Keir Starmer, Britain's new Prime Minister?
Labour's 7th PM shares his Christian name with the founder of the party and was Head of the Crown Prosecution Service in his previous job.
He's a pescatarian and his wife and children are Jewish.
Labour's 7th PM shares his Christian name with the founder of the party and was Head of the Crown Prosecution Service in his previous job.
He's a pescatarian and his wife and children are Jewish.
Although Labour only got 33.8% of the votes despite winning around two thirds of the seats.
As the polling expert who gives us his expert analysis every election, Sir John Curtice said - "Labour haven't won this election. The Conservatives lost it."
Interesting that Reform got more votes than the Lib Dems but the Lib Dems have 71 seats in the new parliament and Reform have just 4.
A smiling Starmer emerges from Buckingham Palace as Prime Minister. He gets into a car and makes his way to Downing Street where the 58th Prime Minister will address the nation.
It is only the fourth handover of power from one party to another since 1979 and Starmer is only the second elected Labour Prime Minister since 1979 after Blair (Blair's successor Brown didn't win an election).
A Labour Government is something that will be quite alien to younger Britons.
It shows just how much the once mighty Conservative Party had dominated for 200 years.
It is only the fourth handover of power from one party to another since 1979 and Starmer is only the second elected Labour Prime Minister since 1979 after Blair (Blair's successor Brown didn't win an election).
A Labour Government is something that will be quite alien to younger Britons.
It shows just how much the once mighty Conservative Party had dominated for 200 years.
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The new Prime Minister makes his speech to the nation and then enters No10 for the first time with his wife Victoria, looking beautiful in a bright red dress.
Whatever anyone may think of him, at least Starmer has been democratically elected by the people unlike Sunak.
Starmer will now set about the task of building his Cabinet after just the fourth change of governing party in 45 years.
Just minutes after entering No10, Starmer is to be asked key security decisions such as "What will you do in the event of a nuclear attack?" He's already having to make key decisions for the country.
Whatever anyone may think of him, at least Starmer has been democratically elected by the people unlike Sunak.
Starmer will now set about the task of building his Cabinet after just the fourth change of governing party in 45 years.
Just minutes after entering No10, Starmer is to be asked key security decisions such as "What will you do in the event of a nuclear attack?" He's already having to make key decisions for the country.
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