The exit poll’s result appears consistent with voter surveys for the past two years: Conservatives are trailing Labour by double digits.
The center-right Conservative Party has governed Britain for the past 14 years, but voters frustrated with the decline of public services, the cost-of-living crisis and the flurry of political scandals plaguing the party seem ready to embrace change. If the result holds, Keir Starmer is set to become the country’s new prime minister. Starmer took over the Labour Party in April 2020 after he won an intra-party contest to succeed former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who resigned following the party’s poor performance in the 2019 general election. .Starmer, a former human rights lawyer and prosecutor, served as shadow Brexit secretary under Corbyn.
he hoped would improve the party’s prospects. A series of campaign blunders, including his decision to leave D-Day celebrations in Normandy early to sit for an ITV interview, earned him more bad headlines., to enter the race as a candidate and become leader of the populist right Reform U.K. party looked likely to further diminish the Conservatives’ voter share., where the party under the leadership of Boris Johnson got 43.6% of the vote, defeating Labour by nearly 12 percentage points.
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