UK Election 2024 live updates: Rishi Sunak, who has been Chancellor since October 2022, will lead his own party into the election. His main opponent is Keir Starmer, a former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and leader of the Labour Party since April 2020.
UK General Election Live Updates: Britain is voting for the first time in more than five years, with much of the focus on whether Conservative Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who has been in power for almost 14 years, can fend off a challenge from Labour leader Keir Starmer. Some opinion polls predict that Labour will win more than 400 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons.
Who are the leading candidates? Sunak, who has been prime minister since October 2022, will lead his own party into the election. His main opponent is Keir Starmer, the former director of public prosecutions in England and leader of the Labour Party since April 2020. However, other parties could also be important in forming a coalition government. The Scottish National Party, which advocates Scottish independence, the Liberal Democrats, and the Democratic Unionist Party, which seeks to maintain ties between the UK and Northern Ireland, are currently the three largest parties in Parliament after the Conservatives and Labour.
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What are India’s interests? New Delhi and London have been negotiating a proposed free trade agreement (FTA) for over two years to boost trade between the two countries, but a landslide victory for the Labour Party could change the dynamics of the FTA talks.
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Possible new government in the UK: Labour may be good for India this time
With the UK Conservative Party suffering a historic electoral defeat, India is well-positioned to advance bilateral relations under the new Labour government led by Keir Starmer. The Conservatives may deserve much of the criticism for their tumultuous 15 years in power. But when it comes to India, there is no doubt that the Conservatives have positively reoriented London-Delhi relations. They have cast off some of the British colonial ties, de-linked Indian policy from Pakistan and Kashmir factors, and positioned engagement within a broader Indo-Pacific framework. Read C Raja Mohan’s views on the polls.
Who is Keir Starmer, the man predicted to win the UK election?
As the UK heads to a general election on Thursday, July 4, all eyes are on Labour leader Keir Starmer, who is expected to win a landslide victory and become the first Labour prime minister to take power since 2010. He will be facing off against Chancellor Rishi Sunak, who is struggling to keep the Conservatives in power despite voter exhaustion after 14 years of Conservative rule.
Starmer has served as Leader of the Opposition in the UK Parliament for the past four years, primarily steering the Social Democrats from the left towards the political centre. He is credited with reviving the Labour Party after its worst election defeat since the 1930s. Starmer, who entered Parliament just 10 years ago, not only made the party electable but also led it to the centre on key policies by delivering scathing criticism of the mistakes of three Conservative prime ministers, The New York Times reported. read more
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