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21 March 2024 Reform UK: Ginny Ball Rutland and Stamford: Alleged racist and xenophobic social media posts from 2023. [167] 22 March 2024 Reform UK: Benjamin Dade South Swindon: Xenophobic comments made on a far-right news website in 2022. [168] [169] 4 April 2024 Reform UK: Mick Greenhough Orpington: Islamophobic social media posts from 2023 ...
Results of the July 2024 general election to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom [4] [5] Affiliate Leader Candidates MPs Aggregate votes Total Gained [c] Lost [c] Net Of total (%) Total Of total (%) Change (%) Labour: Keir Starmer: 631 411 218 7 211 63.2 9,708,716 33.70 1.6 Conservative: Rishi Sunak: 635 121 1 252 251 18.6 6,828,925 23. ...
The 2024 United Kingdom general election is held. [452] Security guard Gavin Plumb is found guilty of plotting to kidnap, rape and murder television presenter Holly Willoughby. [566] 5 July 2024: Sir Keir Starmer becomes the new British prime minister, succeeding Rishi Sunak. 5 July Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election:
Under the Dissolution and Calling of Parliament Act 2022, the prime minister has the power to request the monarch call an election at any time during the five-year length of a parliamentary session. If the prime minister chooses not to do this, then parliament is automatically dissolved five years after the day it first met, [ 21 ] and a ...
Liz Truss announced her resignation on Thursday after only 45 days in office, making her the shortest-serving U.K. prime minister in history. As a result, members of the Conservative Party’s ...
As the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons, Starmer was appointed as prime minister by King Charles III on 5 July 2024, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown, the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair, and the first Labour government formed during the reign of Charles III. [23]
Another frontrunner with the bookies – the 5/1 favourite according to one firm – Ms Mordaunt made waves in 2019 as the UK’s first female defence secretary before being fired by Mr Johnson ...
One hundred and twenty one Conservative Party members of Parliament (MPs) were elected to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom at the 2024 general election, [1] the lowest number in history. [2] Party leader Kemi Badenoch is shown in bold.