British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday urged the new delegation to unite in a “common effort for national renewal”. In his first parliamentary intervention since Labor’s victory in last week’s assembly elections.
After congratulating Lindsey Hoyle on his re-election as president this Tuesday, [‘speaker’] Of the House of Commons, Starmer said MPs in this new assembly “An opportunity and a responsibility to end a policy that has often appeared selfish and selfish, and to transform this politics of spectacle into a politics of service.“.
“Therefore, regardless of our political differences, it is time to turn to unite in a common effort for national renewal and make this new parliament a parliament of service,” he said.
Conservative Party Leader Rishi Sunak congratulated him on his new role as Leader of the Opposition.
“We can debate politics vigorously, as the Prime Minister and I have done for the past 6 weeks, but we must continue to respect each other,” he asserted.
Sunak, who lamented the loss of several Conservative MPs in last week’s heavy election defeat, took it upon himself to scrutinize the new Labor government.
“After 14 years in government, it is important for the Conservative Party to rebuild itself“Now we can take on the important role of Her Majesty’s official opposition in a professional, effective and courteous manner,” he said.
Labor won the most votes in the July 4 legislative election, picking up 412 of the 650 seats that went to the polls, while the Conservatives, who have been in power for 14 years, won 121 seats.
The Liberal Democrats were the third most-voted party (72), with 10 other parties and six independents represented in the House of Commons.
The organization has the highest number of women ever elected, 263, 40% of the total, and the highest number of representatives of color, 90.
This Tuesday and over the next few days, the British Parliament will be occupied with the necessary oath of allegiance to the King and “his heirs and successors”, including the Prime Minister, with 650 representatives taking the oath of office.
MPs can take an oath or make a secular statement according to their religion, first in English, as in Starmer, and then, optionally, in Welsh, Gaelic from Scotland or Ireland, Scots from Ireland, or Northern or Cornish (the Cornish language).
The legislative session will be officially opened on Wednesday by King Charles III, who will read out the government’s plans for the next 12 months.
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