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The 2024 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday, 4 July 2024, to elect 650 members of Parliament to the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The opposition Labour Party, led by Keir Starmer, defeated the governing Conservative Party, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in a landslide victory.
Minister of State for Skills, Apprenticeships and Higher Education: 2015: 2015 Claire Young: Liberal Democrats: Greg Hands [79] Chelsea and Fulham: Minister of State for Trade Policy. Minister for London. 2005: 2010: Ben Coleman: Labour: Mark Harper [80] Forest of Dean: Secretary of State for Transport: 2005: 2005 Matt Bishop: Labour: Sally-Ann ...
United Kingdom general elections (elections for the House of Commons) have occurred in the United Kingdom since the first in 1802.The members of the 1801–1802 Parliament had been elected to the former Parliament of Great Britain and Parliament of Ireland, before being co-opted to serve in the first Parliament of the United Kingdom, so that Parliament is not included in the table below.
Labour leader Keir Starmer officially became prime minister of the United Kingdom on Friday after his party won a landslide victory in a national election. Starmer received the blessing of King ...
The former prime minister’s video on X, formerly Twitter, comes after he made a surprise appearance at Rishi Sunak’s campaign rally on Tuesday. Polling day in pictures 09:02 , Maryam Zakir-Hussain
Kemi Badenoch has challenged Sir Keir Starmer to resign, pointing to a petition signed by 2 million people calling for a general election in the UK. After the prime minister told the Commons at ...
After each election, having remained in power, a prime minister may engage in a major or minor reshuffle of ministers; such a reshuffle may occur at any time if the prime minister wishes it. Any vacancy arising in the House, due to death, ennoblement, resignation , or recall , is filled by a by-election .
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a speech calling for a general election, outside 10 Downing Street, in London on May 22. - Maja Smiejkowska/Reuters