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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.
General election - In the UK, when an election is held for all 650 members of the House of Commons. One must take place every five years.
Conservatives - A traditionally right-wing or centre right political party in the UK. Members are sometimes called Tories.
Keir Starmer - The leader of the UK Labour Party since 2020 and British prime minister since July 2024.
Rishi Sunak - A British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2022 to 2024.
Brexit - The UK's departure from the European Union.
Liberal Democrats - Also known as the Lib Dems, a liberal political party in the UK.
Reform - Making big changes to how a system works.
First Past the Post - A voting system in which the winner is simply whoever comes first in each area. As such, the winning party almost never has a majority of the vote, and sometimes might even win a smaller share of the vote than its opponent.
Majority - More than half.
Confident - When you are very sure of yourself or your ability to do something.
Revive - Bring back.