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Landslide: “We did it! You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived. Change begins now,” Keir Starmer said this morning. Glossary
Labour - Britain's main left-of-centre political party.
Conservatives - A traditionally right-wing or centre right political party in the UK. Members are sometimes called Tories.
Cabinet - The senior ministers in a government, who attend regular direct meetings with the prime minister.
Penny Mordaunt - A British Conservative politician who ran to be leader twice in 2022.
Liz Truss - The Conservative prime minister of the United Kingdom from September to October 2022.
Jacob Rees-Mogg - A Conservative politician who has been MP for North East Somerset since 2010. He is notorious for his posh, old-fashioned mannerisms.
Greens - In England and Wales, the Green Party is a left-wing political party. It argues for more taxation and more spending.
Reform UK - A right-wing populist party in the UK. It has support from Nigel Farage and used to be called the Brexit Party.
House of Commons - The democratically elected house of the UK Parliament. It consists of 650 Members of Parliament.
Liberal Democrats - Also known as the Lib Dems, a liberal political party in the UK.
Green belt - Land that has not been developed, and is still either wild or agricultural.
Thames Water - A private company responsible for supplying water to and treating waste water from Greater London and some other areas.