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The leadership race commenced on 24 July and concluded on 31 October. [2] On 2 November, Kemi Badenoch was announced as the winner of the members' ballot, becoming the first Black leader of any major UK political party, the fourth female Conservative leader and the second consecutive Conservative leader to be non-White.
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. ...
Reform UK placed third in the share of the vote in the 2024 election and had MPs elected to the Commons for the first time. [12] Farage and his party Reform UK have done well in opinion polls in expense of both Labour and the Conservatives. The Liberal Democrats made significant gains to reach their highest ever number of seats.
The two candidates to become Britain’s next prime minister began a head-to-head battle on Thursday for the votes of Conservative Party members who will choose the country’s new leader. Former ...
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Cleverly, who had a career in publishing before being elected to parliament in 2015, ran for the party's leadership in 2019 but was the first candidate to drop out of the race. ROBERT JENRICK, 42
Leader Keir Starmer: Rishi Sunak: Ed Davey: Party Labour: Conservative: Liberal Democrats: Leader since 4 April 2020: 24 October 2022: 27 August 2020: Leader's seat Holborn and St Pancras: Richmond and Northallerton: Kingston and Surbiton: Last election 202 seats, 32.1% 365 seats, 43.6% 11 seats, 11.6% Seats won 411 [b] 121 72 Seat change 211 ...
The leader of the Conservative Party (officially the leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party) is the highest position within the United Kingdom's Conservative Party. The current holder of the position is Kemi Badenoch , who was elected to the position on 2 November 2024, following her victory against Robert Jenrick in the party's ...