This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Jalil at 13 hours GMT on Friday the 5th of July.

These are our main stories.

Britain has a new Prime Minister, Kiea Starma, after a landslide victory in the UK

general elections for the Labour Party.

Our country has voted decisively for change, for national renewal and return of politics to public service.

Following the Conservative Party's worst ever defeat,

Rishisunak apologizes to the country.

I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility for this loss.

I will step down as party leader, not immediately, but once the formal

arrangements for selecting my successor are in place.

Also in this podcast, the Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban has met President

Putin in Moscow a trip which has angered other European leaders and an arrest

to the Disney fortune has announced she's withholding donations to the Democratic Party over President Biden's candidacy.

We begin this podcast in the UK where the Conservative government has suffered a

crushing general election defeat after 14 years in power. With nearly all the

results now in, as we record this podcast, Labor has won well over 400 seats,

more than three times the number that the Conservatives have managed to cling on to.

Their tally of just over 120 seats stands in stark contrast to the last election

five years ago when under Boris Johnson, they pledged to deliver Brexit, won

than the support of some voters who had traditionally backed labour.

But now with many worried about Britain's stagnating economy, high taxes and struggling public

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