hap0206, Britain's conservatives booted after five pms in about the last nine years.
Britain's Conservative Party ousted after 14 years, marking big victory for Labour
U.K. support for Israel and Ukraine is unlikely to change, one observer said.
By Kevin Shalvey and Sophie Magalhaes July 5, 2024, 6:52 PM [...] Voters in 650 constituencies cast ballots for members of the House of Commons. With almost all the votes counted, Labour candidates were expected to win 412 seats, while Conservatives would take 120 seats, according to the Press Association. Liberal Democrats were expected to have 71 seats. [...] Since David Cameron's victory in the 2010 general election, the center-right Tories have led the country through a period of economic "austerity," its exit from the European Union, the COVID pandemic and the current cost of living crisis.
"A Starmer victory seems more the product of a media backlash against the Conservatives following the scandal-plagued Johnson and Truss years rather than excitement about policy proposals, with Labour now seen across newsrooms as a safe alternative following Starmer's shifting of the party to the right," Moon said. [...] Johnson oversaw a chaotic rollout of COVID restrictions, which were then broken by Johnson himself during a Christmas gathering at 10 Downing Street, the prime minister’s official residence.
Truss introduced a "mini-budget" in 2022 that included a series of tax cuts aimed a growing the economy, but she reversed course within days amid public backlash.
British inflation then spiked under Sunak, rising to a high of 11% in late 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics.
"The Conservatives are deeply unpopular in large part because they are no longer viewed as competent," Ehrlich said. "Their struggles to implement Brexit play a large role in this decline in support but the election should probably not be viewed as a repudiation of Brexit itself."
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