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Labour Leader Keir Starmer celebrates winning the 2024 general election with a speech at Tate Modern in London on Friday. Ricky Vigil/Getty Images Europe hide caption

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Year of Global Elections

Britain swings to the center-left in a historic U.K. election landslide

July 5, 2024 • After 14 years of Conservative rule, Britons elected a new prime minister, Keir Starmer, and Parliament dominated by the Labour Party, which hadn't won a national election since Tony Blair, nearly 20 years.

The U.K. has a new government with Sir Keir Starmer at the helm

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Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, is seen at BBC Broadcasting House for an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg on Oct. 23, 2022, in London. Hollie Adams/Getty Images hide caption

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Who is Keir Starmer? A look at Britain's next prime minister

July 4, 2024 • Keir Starmer, 61, is a social liberal, fiscal moderate and leader of the United Kingdom's Labour Party, which won Thursday's election in a landslide.

Labour leader Keir Starmer gives a speech during a visit to Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England, while on the election campaign trail on Monday. Stefan Rousseau/PA Images via Reuters hide caption

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Year of Global Elections

What to know about the U.K. election, with Labour forecast to knock out Conservatives

July 3, 2024 • Polls forecast a wipeout for the governing Conservatives. The Labour Party's leader, a centrist human rights lawyer, is widely predicted to become the next prime minister.