U.K. Labour Party Sweeps to Power in Election Landslide

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🗓️ 5 July 2024

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A.M. Edition for July 5th. After shedding its more radical policies and members, Britain’s Labour Party hands the ruling Conservatives the worst defeat in the party’s 190-year history. The Journal’s Max Colchester explains how Keir Starmer led Labour to victory on a pledge to end political chaos. Plus, Chinese authorities move to crack down on chemical producers that have helped fuel the U.S. opioid crisis. And the Biden campaign hopes an advertising blitz and visits to key battleground states will help boost the president’s re-election bid. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:13.4	and its pre-diabedes awareness partners. A historic defeat for
0:20.3	the UK's ruling conservatives as Kieer Starmer returns the Labour Party to power.
0:26.0	You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived.
0:33.8	Change begins now.
0:36.0	Plus China steps up to help the US
0:38.7	tackle its fentanyl crisis, and Sachs and Neiman Marcus joined forces with help from Amazon in a bid to hold on to
0:47.0	high-end shoppers.
0:48.8	It's Friday July 5th.
0:50.4	I'm Luke Vargas for the Wall Street Journal and here is the AM edition of What's News?
0:55.5	The top headlines and business stories moving your world today.
1:02.2	We begin today in the United Kingdom where the ruling Conservative Party has suffered
1:06.9	its worst election performance in its 190 year history at the hands of a resurgent labor party.
1:14.0	Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded defeat this morning and apologized for the scale of
1:19.1	his party's defeat something unimaginable as recently as 2019 when the Conservatives won a decisive majority
1:26.7	with a promise to help deliver Brexit. Our UK correspondent Max Colchester joins me now to break
1:32.2	down these results. Max, for
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