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Britain's Rishi Sunak and Labour's Keir Starmer went head-to-head on Tuesday over how to boost the country's economy, with the prime minister accusing the opposition party of wanting to increase ...
On 22 May 2024, Rishi Sunak unexpectedly announced that a general election would be held on 4 July 2024. Labour entered the general election with a large lead over the Conservative Party in opinion polls, and the potential scale of the party's victory was a topic of discussion during the campaign period.
Starmer was a member of Doughty Street Chambers from 1990 onwards, primarily working on human rights matters. [8] [11] Starmer has been called to the Bar in several Caribbean countries, [24] where he defended convicts sentenced to the death penalty. [6] In 1999 he was a junior barrister on Lee Clegg's appeal. [25]
Sunak, whose Conservatives have trailed Labour by around 20 percentage points in opinion polls since he became prime minister in October 2022, shocked and angered many in his party when he gambled ...
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer struggled to get their messages across in the first half of their fiery final televised debate of the U.K. election campaign ...
Country/Territory Location Date Details 1 United States Washington D.C. 9–11 July Starmer attended the 2024 NATO summit for his first international trip. [1] [2] On the flight to the summit, Starmer laid out a "cast iron" commitment to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, following a “root and branch” review of Britain's defences.
Rishi Sunak faced Sir Keir Starmer at the final Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 19 July, before parliament's summer recess. Today's session came before Thursday's by-elections which are ...
Changes from Starmer's final Shadow Cabinet to Cabinet.. Thangam Debbonaire (Shadow Culture Secretary) lost her seat and Lisa Nandy was appointed in her place.; Nandy's role (Shadow International Development Cabinet Minister) was a full member of Shadow Cabinet despite the department having merged into the Foreign Office under the previous government and not reformed by Starmer.