Sir Keir Starmer will be the UK’s new Labour prime minister after a landslide victory across Great Britain in the General Election.
During a victory rally at the Tate Modern art gallery in London on Friday morning, shortly after Rishi Sunak publicly conceded defeat, the Labour leader said the country can now “get its future back” and told jubilant activists that “change begins now”.
Sir Keir said: “Four-and-a-half years of work changing the party, this is what it is for - a changed Labour Party ready to serve our country, ready to restore Britain to the service of working people.
And now we can look forward, walk into the morning, the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day, shining once again, on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.” However, Harvey Jones, personal finance editor at the Daily Express, warns that soon-to-be Chancellor Rachel Reeves is already drawing up plans for her Autumn Budget,which only gives people a “small window of opportunity to use tax breaks that could soon be curtailed or closed altogether”.
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