Angela Rayner: Labour’s new Red Queen
The party’s deputy leader will take charge of the Government’s workplace reform agenda.
The party’s deputy leader will take charge of the Government’s workplace reform agenda.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said ‘a weight has been lifted’ off the British people as he prepared to formally become prime minister.
Sinn Fein has emerged as the largest Northern Ireland party after a Westminster election for the first time.
Terry Jermy ousted the former Conservative prime minister from her South West Norfolk seat.
Alastair Chalmers, the soon-to-be Olympian, has been backed by his coach to challenge the British 400m hurdles record as early as next year.
The outgoing Prime Minsiter said he took responsibility for the loss his party experienced at the General Election.
It is an exhibition special on this month’s podcast as Simon De La Rue and Shaun Shackleton explore some of the shows taking place this summer.
Sir Keir Starmer echoed Tony Blair’s reference to the new dawn in a victory speech in the early hours of Friday.
Sir Keir Starmer said ‘the fight for trust is the battle that defines our age’ in his first speech after the Labour Party secured more than 326 seats.
During his 20 months in No 10, the premier grappled with a toxic inheritance.
The new Prime Minister remains something of an unknown quantity.
The Labour leader said the ‘sunlight of hope’ could be felt again after 14 years of Conservative rule.
Among the Cabinet ministers to lose seats were Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.
Rishi Sunak said he will stand down as Tory leader after a Labour landslide handed his party the worst defeat in its parliamentary history.
Reform has secured four MPs so far, including the party leader’s victory in Clacton, Essex.