Britain's head of state King Charles III officially appointed Keir Starmer as prime minister on Friday during an audience at Buckingham Palace, a few hours after his Labour party swept to power.
Sunak had conceded defeat earlier in the morning, saying the voters had delivered a “sobering verdict.”
With almost all the results in, Labour had won 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons and the Conservatives 118.
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New Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Britain needed to rediscover its identity and undergo a wider reset, in his first words outside his new office at 10 Downing Street, promising to fight to restore trust in politics and serve all voters.
ReplyDeleteGreeted in Downing Street by a large crowd of cheering aides and supporters after formally accepting the King’s invitation to become prime minister, Starmer’s first address made the case for a moderate politics to repair voters’ broken trust.