The Labour leader in United Kingdom, Keith Starmer, met this Friday with the King Charles III after winning the parliamentary elections and was commissioned by royalty to form a government as the new prime minister.
The election victory was considered a landslide by the European media. The Labour Party Keir Starmer would have obtained 412 of the 650 seats of the House of Commons, with a comfortable lead over the Prime Minister’s Conservatives Rishi Sunakpunished by voters, who would get 121its worst election result since the beginning of the 20th century.
Kei Starmer set to form new Cabinet
Following the results of the elections held this Friday, King Charles officially appointed the Labour Party member as the new Prime Minister at a meeting at Buckingham Palace.
The audience with royalty It was a constitutional procedure required after the general elections.There, King Charles has reportedly entrusted him with the task of forming a government. In this way, Kei Starmer will put an end to 14 consecutive years of conservative governments.
The 61-year-old former lawyer, now, will be installed as Prime Minister in the official residence located at 10 Downing Street. As a first step, the leader will have to form his new Cabinet, which is expected to have a great diversity among its officials.
UK elects most diverse parliament in history
He new british prime minister, Keir Starmerwill oversee the Parliament more ethnically diverse and with more women than ever, after achieving a landslide victory in Thursday’s elections that put End of 14 years of conservative government.
Black, Asian and Latino lawmakers ethnic minorities will represent around the 13% of the House of Commons, compared to 10% in 2019when the United Kingdom last held parliamentary elections.
It will be the highest ever proportion of ethnic minority members in the Lower Houseaccording to a study by the analysis group British FutureThey also said that in the 44 years since the birth of the outgoing Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, minority representation in the British Parliament has gone from zero to almost one in seven legislators.
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