"We made it! The change starts now . The Labor Party has changed, it is ready to serve our country, ready to bring Britain back to serving working people. The mandate comes with great responsibilities . We must bring politics back to serving the public. This is the great test of politics in this age: the fight for trust is the defining battle of our age. First the country, then the party is a guiding principle." Thus Labor leader Keir Starmer commented on the outcome of the vote in Great Britain.
And that leaves no doubt: for the conservatives the lowest number of deputies in their entire political history . The Labor Party , however, returns to power after 14 years and with an overwhelming majority.
Also from the polls was the result of Nigel Farage's election to the House of Commons, after seven failed attempts . The leader of the populist right of Reform UK won by a landslide in the constituency of Clacton-on-Sea, taken from Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party. In his victory speech he relaunched the right-wing challenge to the Tories, exalting the result of his party - which is also making great progress in the national proportional vote -, not without issuing a bold warning to Keir Starmer's Labour, winner of the elections. "There is no enthusiasm for Starmer - he thundered -, soon his government will have problems and Reform will be upon him".
Instead, he was re-elected as an independent candidate , after being expelled from Labor by his successor Keir Starmer, former Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn . The 75-year-old champion of the radical left was re-elected as an MP in the Islington North constituency in London.
Corbyn - MP in that constituency for 41 years - surpassed the new official Labor candidate by almost 8,000 votes: his victory represents a stain on the overall electoral triumph of Starmer's party.
(Unioneonline/vl)
