Will Labour revive Britain? Keir Starmer has become only the fifth Labour leader ever to win a general election. He inherits a country in the steepest decline it has ever known.
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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.
Reform - Making big changes to how a system works.
MP - Member of Parliament. There are 650 MPs representing people in different areas of the UK.
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.
Thames Water - A private company responsible for supplying water to and treating waste water from Greater London and some other areas.