After 14 years in power, the Conservatives were defeated by the opposition Labour Party in the UK general election, which resulted in a sizable parliamentary majority.
Labour gained the necessary threshold to govern on its own early on Friday morning, and departing PM Rishi Sunak announced his defeat. Afterwards, Sunak left Downing Street and gave up his position as head of the Conservative Party.
The country’s new prime minister is Keir Starmer, the head of the center-left Labour party, who announced his victory in the early hours of the morning.
“Our nation undoubtedly requires a more significant overhaul, a rediscovery of our identity,” Starmer declared on the steps of 10 Downing Street, promising that his Labour Party would put “country first, party second.”