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Great victory for Labour in the British elections
  • The Labour Party has kept to the forecasts and has taken a giant victory in the UK elections. The new prime minister will be the party leader, Keir Starmer. In Scotland, the SNP has suffered a great defeat, Sinn Féin has improved its voting results and Welsh independence has also done so.
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The Labour Party has achieved 411 seats, 213 more than in 2019. 119 parliamentarians from the Conservative Party, 250 fewer than in the last elections. The House of Commons in the United Kingdom has 650 seats and, therefore, the Labour Party has achieved an absolute majority, overcoming the barrier of the 326. I was in doubt whether the Labour Party would achieve the best result in its history, and in the end not, but for very little, as they have stayed very close to the 418 seats that Tony Blair achieved in 1997.

The Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) was the third force with 71 votes (60 more seats). Therefore, at the expense of the conservatives, he has achieved a great triumph in the Palau Blaugrana. The fourth force is the SNP nationalist party in Scotland, but with 9 seats it has achieved a great result, as it achieved 38 seats in the previous elections. In Scotland, the Labour force has also had a great rise in the number of seats.

Sinn Féin has risen in votes in northern Ireland, but in seats he has achieved the same number as the previous ones: 7 parliamentarians. On the other side of the coin, the DUP Unionist Party: The training has dropped from 5 to 3 of its seats in the Basque Country. The SDLP, the Irish Social Democrat Abertzale, obtained 2, followed by Allianz, who achieved 1, and the UUP Unionist Party, which managed to enter the Chamber with 1. The independence party in Wales, Plaid Cymru, has also risen from two to four. The UK Greens have also improved one, with 4 points.

In the wake of European winds, the far-right party Reform the United Kingdom has managed to enter the House of Commons with four seats, and it is to be hoped that it will get a lot of conservative votes. After many sessions, his leader, Nigel Farage, has been elected for the first time. Farage became particularly popular in the Brexit campaign to leave the European Union. He then implied that he had done his job in the world of politics, but the one who was a MEP is still there.

Strengthening public services

Labour Keir Starmer, who will be Prime Minister to win and participate, has insisted that "it is time for change" and has announced that he will reinvigorate public services. For his part, the acting Conservative Prime Minister, Rishi Suna, has assumed the defeat of his party and has resigned as a new minister.