TEHRAN, Dec. 13 (MNA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ruling Conservative Party won a huge majority in the parliamentary election, according to exit polls. By early Friday morning, the Conservatives had secured 358 of the 650 seats in the House of Parliament, well ahead of Labour'...
LONDON — The U.K.'s Labour Party won a huge parliamentary majority in the country's general election, but a quirk of the British electoral system means it did so with just 34% of the total votes cast. Results show that the opposition Labour Party has won 412 parliamentary seats of...
The result comes amid asurprisingly strong election performanceby Reform UK, which has a hardline stance on immigration and was born out of the Brexit Party. Exit polls indicate that the party could secure 13 parliamentary seats, having failed to win any in the 2019 election. Read more here...
The police probe into the parties has ended but Johnson still faces a parliamentary investigation into whether he lied about the issue to the House of Commons. If the committee of lawmakers rule that he did, he would be expected to resign. Cost of living Speaking after T...
Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservatives risk losing a second British parliamentary seat to the anti-EU UKIP party on Thursday, foreshadowing a possible political upheaval in next year's national election. With distrust of mainstream parties and anxiety about immigration rising among voters across ...
Government: Parliamentary Monarchy, Democracy Language: English Religion: mainly Christians 60% Currency: 1 British pound (GBP) = 100 pence National Anthem: 'God Save the King' National Holiday: none, however, the Queen's official birthday is a celebrated public holiday on the second Saturday in...
–In the 4 July legislative election, the Conservative government suffered a crushing electoral defeat, and Rishi Sunak resigned. The Labour Party led by Keir Starmer won 411 (or 412) parliamentary seats o...
This was a long-shot, however, and as predicted in the polls, Labour won the 2024 general election by a landslide, winning 412 out of 650 seats. The sting in the tale for the Labour Party was that despite this large majority, they won a relatively low share of the votes and almost ...
However, Labour politicians stressed Britain's constitution gave current Prime Minister Gordon Brown the right to try to form a government first. He would struggle to do so with the third-placed Liberal Democrats, however, since their combined forecast seats would still be short of a majority in...
When May called the election in April, her Conservative party showed a clear lead in opinion polls. Many indicators suggested that the party could increase their 17-seat parliamentary majority by more than 100 seats while Corbyn's Labour party looked on course to suffer a miserable defeat. ...