Latitude#86: Labor in power in England

Latitude#86: Labor in power in England

Assembly elections in France It took international news in the first week of July. however, Another country The most important in the West, the United Kingdom, held elections turned over Political situation.

The Labor Party ended the election by doubling its seats 411 650 Members of Parliament in the elections to be held on July 4 Almost two-thirds of all seats in the British Parliament.

On the losing side, the Conservative Party, which had ruled the United Kingdom for nearly 15 years, lost. 244 Members of Parliament. Now they have 121 representatives.

This Poor performance 190 years of history The ToriesKnown as members of the Conservative Party.

The consequences of Britain's exit from the United Kingdom, Brexit, and successive governments marked by leadership lacking charisma or political scandals amid the pandemic have tarnished Winston Churchill's brief image.

Focusing on the dispute between Labor and the Conservatives obscures the complexity of the new political landscape.

Two other political forces emerged in these July 4 elections.

First, the liberal democrats, He went to 72 MPs winning 61 seats.

Besides them, the United Kingdom Reform Party, the former Brexit party, had between one and five MPs, but received 14% of all votes in the election.

Podcast episode latitude This Saturday, July 13, he discussed this scenario with Eduardo Galvão, Professor of International Relations at Ibmec in Brasilia.

Calvao commented on expectations for the new government, the numbers of new Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the collapse of the Conservative Party, and why the distribution of seats in Parliament did not directly reflect the general vote.

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