The United Kingdom's King Charles III on Wednesday set out the new Labour government's legislative agenda, promising to focus on economic growth and tackling issues ranging from housing shortages to illegal immigration.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday congratulated Labour Party's leader Keir Starmer on his landslide victory in the UK elections while also lauding outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for his "admirable leadership" and active contribution to deepening India-UK ties.
After securing resounding win in the UK general election, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said that his party is ready to restore Britain to the service for working people.
Right now, Sir Keir Starmer is a highly significant individual. He’s the leader of the opposition in the UK. He’s the leader of the country’s Labour Party. And importantly, he has a very high likelihood of becoming Britain’s prime minister in less than a year.
In a bid to project an image of a resolute decision-maker and a catalyst for change, Mr Sunak made the surprising announcement during the Conservative Party’s annual conference at Manchester of cancelling a high-speed rail project to that city itself.
Many US Democrats who complied with McCarthyism at the time would today doubtless qualify as ‘Trotskyite‘ by the exacting criteria of the vigilant crew running the British Labour Party. Indeed, the programme of Clement Attlee's 1945-51 Labour government, replete with nationalisations and public ownership schemes, sounds way too radical nowadays, and perhaps Attlee too eventually will get the heave-ho from the Party pantheon
Ever since New Zealand implemented a Mixed Member Proportional electoral system 24 years ago, a single party has never won an outright majority of seats in the Parliament before.
In the immediate perspective, the outcome of the pregnant election signifies the eclipse of Jeremy Corbyn, in itself the end of a chapter in the history of the Labour party.
The black is once again the target of white prejudice, if not violence and killings quite yet as in the United States.
Concerns about mass migration were a driving force in the 2016 campaign to leave the EU, and Johnson has promised to end the free movement with the bloc.
