The Labour Party has officially won enough seats in the UK’s 2024 general election to have a majority in parliament, as vote counting continues. Labour Leader Keir Starmer will become prime minister and can form a majority government.
The leaders of Australia and New Zealand have sent their congratulations to Labour Party leader Keir Starmer on his election victory.
Labour leader Keir Starmer, who is set to become the first Labour prime minister in 14 years, says his government will always put “country first, party second.”
He said a “mandate like this comes with great responsibility,” and added that his government will be focused on “national renewal.”
“We have to return politics to public service,” he said.
With more than half of all 650 seats counted, Labour looks set to secure one of its biggest-ever majorities in the House of Commons.
Starmer is expected to visit King Charles III later Friday to get the monarch’s permission to form a new government.
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said in a social media post on X that he looked forward “to working constructively” with the new British government.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon also took to X to congratulate Starmer, writing: “New Zealand and the UK are great friends and can do so much more together.”
Luxon thanked Prime Minister Rishi Sunak “for your service to your nation and friendship to New Zealand.”
Source: apnews.com
