5 Things To Know About Britain's New Prime Minister
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Keir Starmer, the leader of the center-left Labour Party, will succeed Rishi Sunak as U.K. leader.
Labour leader Keir Starmer will soon move into 10 Downing St. as Britain’s new prime minister after his party won Thursday’s U.K. general election in a landslide.
While his party has been dominating the polls for the past two years, Starmer, the man set to become the country’s first center-left leader since 2010, remains a lesser-known figure to many outside of the U.K.
Starmer entered the British political scene in 2015 after he was elected as the member of parliament for Holborn and St Pancras with the Labour Party. He then served in the shadow cabinet of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, first as shadow immigration minister before becoming shadow Brexit secretary in 2016.
Following Corbyn’s resignation over the party’s worst defeat since 1935 in the 2019 general election, Starmer became leader after winning the internal leadership contest in April 2020 resoundingly by earning 56% of the vote.
“I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again — in government,” he said at the time.
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