The anger and frustration of the British people were the color note in these historic elections held on Thursday, July 4 in the United Kingdom .
As indicated by most polls, Labor candidate Keir Starmer managed to win by a wide margin in the parliamentary elections held on July 4 and became the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. . The overwhelming victory of the Labor Party allowed Labor to return to power after 14 years of conservative hegemony.
BBC Mundo confirmed that “Labor won 412 seats, compared to 121 for the ruling Conservative Party” and characterized it as “the worst result in modern history for the Conservatives.” It should be noted that to achieve a majority, 326 of the 650 seats in the British Parliament are needed.
Starmer , the new Prime Minister , is a British progressive politician , human rights lawyer and leader of the Labor Party since April 4, 2020, replacing Jeremy Corbyn.
At 61 years of age , he replaced the conservative Rishi Sunak as the new head of the government this Friday, after receiving the order from King Charles III to assume the reins of the country.
The surprise of the left
For his part, former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn , who was expelled from the Labor Party last year, ran as an independent candidate and won in Islington North , the constituency he has represented since 1983, but for the first time he has been elected as an independent MP and he prevailed over Praful Nargund , a local Labor councilor selected by the party's executive committee as its candidate.
Asked whether Keir Starmer would make a good prime minister, Corbyn replied: “Well, let's see what happens. He will become Prime Minister, he will have a large majority in Parliament, he has presented a program that is thin, to put it mildly, and does not offer a serious economic alternative to what the Conservative Government is doing. So the demands of the people are going to be enormous.”
“If spending on social needs, which are urgent, is not increased, I think there will be political problems. He should have known it when he agreed to this program, which is a kind of straitjacket for any proposal he wants to promote,” he told the elDiario.es portal.
Corbyn , 75, represented the left-wing sectors within British Labor. Opponent of nuclear weapons and critic of NATO , he battled against all odds to impose his position of dialogue with Argentina over the Malvinas Islands , but the most conservative sectors of Labor were always against his position.
"I think there needs to be a discussion about how some reasonable arrangement can be reached with Argentina," Corbyn once told the BBC . And he added: "It seems ridiculous to me that in the 21st century we get into a huge conflict with Argentina over some islands that are in front of them."
Conservatives in the doldrums while the far-right sticks out its chest
Rishi Sunak announced that he would leave his position at the head of the Conservative Party in his farewell speech from Downing Street: "I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility for this defeat," he said.
As CNNE reflected, the conservatives had a difficult night in which they lost more than 250 seats in parliament, which is the worst defeat the party has suffered in its entire history . Among the senior Conservatives losing their seats are former (albeit short-lived) Prime Minister Liz Truss , Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt , Defense Secretary Grant Shapps and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk .
And as if the debacle were not enough, a tough competitor has emerged for British conservatism . It is a far-right party, Reform UK , led by Nigel Farage , which won four seats , including Farage himself, who entered Parliament for the first time , after having stood seven times in the past.
Farage , an ally of Donald Trump , stated that his broader objective is to lead the “real” opposition to a Labor Party government and the conservative debacle . In statements published by Infobae he said that he wanted to lead a “political revolt...turn his back on the political status quo.”
"This is the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party," the leader of Reform UK proclaimed to the newspaper El Mundo . "There is a very big gap in the centre-right of British politics, and my ambition is to fill it. Now we are going to go for it. Labor votes" .
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