“Change starts now,” Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer promised supporters early Friday in London. After a hand-kissing ceremony with King Charles III, Starmer, has officially become prime minister and can form a government.

With just two seats to be decided in the House of Commons, which has 650 deputies, Labour has won a majority of 412 seats after doubling the support it received in the previous UK election.

The right-wing Conservative Party, which has governed for 14 years, now has just 121 seats, has lost 250 deputiesThe centrist Liberal Democratic Party has 71 seats after winning 63 representatives.

Outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signalled to his supporters in his constituency of Richmond and Northallerton, where re-elected as deputywho will bear the burden of his party’s historic defeat.

Sunak then returned to 10 Downing Street, which has been the home and office of the British prime minister since 1735. Of all the political leadership in the world, only the White House, in the United States, perhaps more famous than the English one.

In his final speech as Prime Minister, Sunak said he was honoured to lead “the greatest country in the world”, saying the British people had “make a serious decision“.

He then visited Buckingham Palace, where he formally tendered his resignation to King Charles III, a historic formality, because although the king is head of state, has no real power in the political process from England.

However, Carlos III held weekly meetings with the prime minister to discuss government affairs. Although the king politically neutral, he still has the right to “advise and warn” the prime minister if he deems necessary.

Following ancient tradition, the monarch asked Starmer to form a new Government. Shortly afterwards, Starmer entered 10 Downing Street for the first time. form your new governing team.

The monarch will return to the public stage later this month for the opening of Parliament. Then, at a joint meeting of the House of Lords and the House of Commons, will deliver a speech written for himby the incoming Government, in which it will present its legislative program.

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Starmer stated that his political goals for the next five years would focus on putting “country first, party later” and that the Government would focus on “national renewal”.

“We have to return politics to public service,” he said.

The Labour Manifesto, a document setting out the party’s political priorities, lists five goals of political training. Among them: increasing economic growth, promoting clean energy, reducing violent crime, reforming education, and improving and investing in the weakened National Health Service.

For the first time in 14 years, Labour can set the political agenda, but both the party and Starmer face enormous challenges. The former barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions, 61, must face a nation that is impatient with changein the context of bleak economic conditions, growing distrust of state institutions, and a deteriorating social order.

Labour’s Rachel Reeves, who would be Britain’s first economic chancellor, said she had “no illusions” about this. the magnitude of the challenge what he will face. “The conservative legacy is terrible,” he told reporters.

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Reeves noted that Britain’s debt burden represents 100% of the country’s national income, and the fiscal pressures are enormous. at its highest point in seven decades. Reeves said he “can’t promise that things will change immediately” but the main mission of the incoming Labor government would be to boost economic growth.

However, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London, said that British votersthey have to be calm because of the relative stability of the new government.

Voters should be encouraged, he said, “by ministers who have been in power for some time, and by the Government’s ability to think beyond the short termin the medium term,” he said.

The plan The first day of work in Parliament is next Tuesday, with the presidential election. The opening of Parliament and the King’s speech will take place on Wednesday, July 17.

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