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Can the UK’s new prime minister restore the trust in British politics? | DW News

The new British prime minister comes to power after his centre-left Labour party won a landslide victory, bringing 14 years of Conservative rule to an end and paving the way for a major political reset. Keir Starmer has already announced most of his new cabinet positions.

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  1. I have great respect for DW. You don’t miss main international news. Thank you!

    I admire UK election process that no fuss about deception and no scremish at all. As soon as the party won, the PM acknowledged; he lost.

  2. Re: low turn out
    Might have something to do with everyone being able to see the polls for the last two years. Everyone knew Labour would walk off with this election, so a lot of people probably just didn’t bother voting.

  3. the answer to the question is entirely in the hands of the corporate aristocrats
    who own Britain (and every other country you care to name) and the media they control.
    take my word, that lot won’t allow anything too radical to happen.
    their investments/wealth would suffer.

  4. When Blair won in ’97 we had a two party system with a tiny portion of Liberal Democrats in the mix. With this election we had what was essentially a five way battle of parties. You start with a hypothetical baseline for each party’s vote share of 20%. The previous highs of mid 40% vote share that has historically been seen cannot be repeated in any possible scenario where there are more ways to divide the total.
    I find it incredible that journalists, who one can assume had a good education, have exhibited such a paucity of critical thinking skills over this salient fact.

    • Rest assured, you still have a de facto duocracy instead of a true multi-party democracy. Either Labour or the Conservatives have dominated each and every cabinet for the last hundred years or so. Between 2017 and 2019, you had your tiny portion of DUP, allowing Theresa May to form a minority government. Now there’s yet again a one-party “majority” cabinet after Labour secured 34% of the popular vote, nearly a 10% drop from Boris Johnson’s earlier score. I wonder if The Economist is going to downgrade you in their Democracy Index. FPTP is so over.

  5. I wish this guy luck. The economy in the UK (as well as others) is struggling and the conservatives had been at the helm for 14 years. It’s time to get on it.

  6. “Country first, party second” – it is worth to teach Kaczynski (polish socialist-postcommunist party leader) this phrase. He is 75, but he might still learn.

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