Live updates on the UK election

Live updates on the UK election

In the United States, election night is followed by a monthslong transition period before the new administration takes office. In Britain, by contrast, new leaders endure a sleepless, 24-hour maelstrom that takes them straight from the campaign trail to No. 10 Downing St., the Prime minister’s official residence and office.

With the election result increasingly clear, Prime Minister-elect Keir Starmer must travel to Buckingham Palace to be formally appointed by King Charles III, a ceremonial ritual in Britain’s constitutional democracy. It will be the king’s first post-election appointment, but he has some way to go before he equals the 15 prime ministers who served under his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II.

The new prime minister then travels to Downing Street, which will have been swiftly vacated by his predecessor. There he will address the nation outside its famous black door, then be applauded inside by civil servants. Then come the security briefings — including on protocols in case of nuclear attack — calls to world leaders, and finally the small matter of running the country.


Congratulations are already pouring in for Starmer, whose Labour Party won handily, and he will now take Sunak's place as prime minister.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrote on X, "Congratulations to my friend and new UK Prime Minister @Keir_Starmer on his resounding election victory." The prime minister of New Zealand, Christopher Luxon, returned his congratulations.

 


Former Prime Minister Liz Truss has lost her South West Norfolk seat to Labour by just over 600 votes.

“The issue we faced as conservatives is we haven’t delivered sufficiently on the policies people want," Truss told the BBC. "And that means keeping taxes low... I was part of that.”

Truss was leader of the Conservative Party for just 44 days in 2022, during which time she announced a radical new economic agenda of tax cuts and spending that crashed Britain’s economy before she resigned.

She has since styled herself as a populist who took on the "deep state" during her time in office and she also appeared alongside Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the United States.

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