From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitroa, and this is the Daily. For more than a decade, Britain has been governed by conservatives who pushed the UK to the right,

embracing smaller government and Brexit.

Last week that era officially came to an end.

My colleague Mark Landler explains why UK voters rejected the Conservative Party and what a win by the

British left means in a world where right-wing populism is on the rise.

It's Wednesday, July 10th.

Mark, hi, welcome back to the show. Hi there, Natalie.

I want to start this conversation by just asking you to help us break down

what exactly happened in the UK elections last week?

Well, the top line was the Conservative Party,

which has been in government here for 14 years,

was swept out in a resounding landslide by the Labor Party.

So remember, the Conservatives, often known as the Tories,

are the right of center party.

Labor is traditionally the left of center party. Labor is traditionally the left of center party,

closely allied with the trade unions.

So what happened in this election is that labor won

more than 400 seats in the parliament compared to only 121 seats for the

Conservatives and so that puts the labor leader, Kirst Armour, into Ten Downing Street as the Prime Minister, it opens a new chapter

in British politics after more than a decade of conservative

and it represents a resounding repudiation of the conservatives by a very angry electorate.

This is just a massive shift.

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