New UK PM Keir Starmer selects Government ministers
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Hours after his Labour Party was swept to office with a massive electoral majority, Britain's new prime minister Keir Starmer has assembled his senior government team. Britain's first female chancellor of the exchequer, Rachel Reeves, said the government's central mission was to restore economic growth nationwide. Also in the programme: Hungarian PM Viktor Orban visits Moscow; and Joe Biden claims he isn’t dropping out. (Photo: Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria outside No 10 Downing Street after the Labour party won a landslide victory at the 2024 General Election. CREDIT: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. This is Andrew Peach in London. |
| 0:07.0 | Good to have your company. |
| 0:08.6 | Elections where the result is on a knife edge often create more dramatic campaigns but elections |
| 0:14.7 | where the result is never really in doubt are the ones that have more profound |
| 0:18.9 | consequences in Britain the opinion polls haven't really shifted for about 18 months. |
| 0:24.1 | They have long predicted that the centre left Labour Party would sweep to power. |
| 0:28.8 | Last night, they did, winning 412 of the 650 seats in the UK Parliament and inflicting the worst defeat |
| 0:36.7 | on the Conservative rivals in the party's history. |
| 0:42.0 | And as Big Ben strikes 10, the exit poll is predicting a labor landslide. |
| 0:48.4 | We did it! |
| 0:49.4 | You campaign! You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived. |
| 1:01.2 | Change begins now. |
| 1:04.0 | Only what in the entire post-war era have we seen what we've seen tonight |
| 1:11.0 | from a stable majority to a stable majority. I mean a quite remarkable event. |
| 1:16.6 | It's an unenthusiastic landslide. I will surely be seeing His |
| 1:21.1 | Majesty the King to offer my resignation as Prime Minister. |
| 1:25.8 | To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry. |
| 1:31.4 | I have given this job my all but you have sent a clear signal that the government of the |
| 1:37.1 | United Kingdom must change. |
| 1:39.3 | So if you're just beginning your day, Labour has won the general election 2024 and they've won it very |
| 1:44.9 | convincingly. So in Britain the votes are counted as soon as the polls closed |
| 1:49.1 | the transfer of power takes place just a few hours later when everyone's a bit lacking sleep. |
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