Independent candidate Niko Omilana holds an “L” behind Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who speaks after winning his seat in the general election at the Richmond and Northallerton count center in Northallerton, England, Friday July 5, 2024. Britain’s Labour Party headed for a landslide...
"The Labour Party has won this general election and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory," Sunak said. He was speaking after having won his seat in parliament in Richmond and Northallerton. Sunak spoke of a "difficult night" for the Conservative Party, and sai...
Lee Anderson has become Reform UK's first elected MP, winning back his seat of Ashfield.Friday 5 July 2024 02:46, UK ShareThis is a modal window. Video UnavailableHe won the seat comfortably, while his old party - the Conservatives - crashed to fourth....
The bad news for the Conservatives was made worse by the loss of one of their seats in the House of Commons. In a by-election in the British seaside resort of Blackpool, the Labour Party won the seat from the Conservatives. The 26-percent swing in the voting in Blackpool would point ...
The election also brought some other surprises. TheAlliance Party of Northern Irelandwon its first seat ever in the House of Commons, oustingDemocratic Unionist PartyleaderPeter Robinson. The Green Party also won its first seat, capturing the seat of Brighton Pavilion along the southern coast. And...
The so-called super poll by YouGov predicts that Johnson will return triumphant to 10 Downing Street after the Dec. 12 election with 359 seats, giving the Conservatives a comfortable 68-seat majority in the House of Commons. Jeremy Corbyn's main opposition Labour Party would lose 51 seats, ...
1:50 AM (BST).Labour starting to get some better results now, such as a good hold in Tooting that wasn’t guaranteed. Both we and uniform swing had the Conservatives winning that seat, though we made a bigger error as we had a 6.5-point Conservative win there. ...
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has lost his seat of Welwyn Hatfield to the Labour Party. He is the second cabinet casualty of the night, after Justice Secretary Alex Chalk also lost his seat.Friday 5 July 2024 03:54, UK General Election 2024 ...
LONDON — U.K. Finance Minister Jeremy Hunt announced his Spring Budget, possibly the final fiscal event before what promises to be a challenging General Election for the ruling Conservative Party. Hunt announced that the government will abolish the non-domiciled tax status, implementi...
While the results confirmed Labour’s ascendancy ahead of a general election — expected this autumn — Sunak was also rocked by signs that his party is losing support to the anti-immigration Reform UK party. Reform, formerly the Brexit party,secured more than 10 per cent of the votein both...