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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.
Keir Starmer's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 5 July 2024 when he accepted an invitation from King Charles III to form a government, succeeding Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party. As prime minister, Starmer is serving concurrently as First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service, and Minister for the Union.
Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party (2023–2024) 2019: 2019 Jo White: Labour: Chris Clarkson [37] Stratford-on-Avon [n 7] 2019: 2019 Manuela Perteghella: Liberal Democrats: Thérèse Coffey [38] Suffolk Coastal: Deputy Prime Minister (2022) 2010: 1983 Jenny Riddell-Carpenter: Labour: Elliot Colburn [39] Carshalton and Wallington: 2019: ...
The Elections Act introduced by former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in 2022 was enforced, ironically, earlier this year when Johnson tried to vote without ID in a local election in South ...
The night kicked off with an exit poll predicting a Labour landslide, with the party ending with 412 seats by mid-morning.
Prime Minister Title State's political system Date of assumption Current length of term Hassanal Bolkiah: Prime Minister of Brunei: Absolute monarchy: 1 January 1984 40 years, 364 days Ralph Gonsalves: Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Constitutional monarchy: 29 March 2001 23 years, 276 days Roosevelt Skerrit: Prime Minister ...
The UK Parliament consists of the elected House of Commons, the House of Lords, and the Sovereign. [2] The new Parliament first met on 9 July 2024. [3] Of the 650 MPs elected, more than half (335) were new to Parliament. [4]
New — 5,077 0 New Hampshire Ind. 0 0 0 — 2,872 0 Socialist Labour: 0 0 0 — 2,397 0 Climate: 0 New — 1,863 0 New British Democrats: 0 Did not stand in 2019 — 1,860 0 — Alliance for Democracy and Freedom 0 New — 1,586 0 New Communist: 0 Did not stand in 2019 — 1,585 0 — English Constitution: 0 New — 1,563 0 New Animal Welfare ...