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62 resultsfor “Labour party election significance 2024”

Politics

Plan to ban ‘private equity sharks’ from social care dropped, Wes Streeting says

elections. He is expected to run in any imminent leadership contest. Andy Burnham, who is also expected to run for the leadership if he wins this week’s byelection, said he would [fix the social

The Guardian WorldJun 18
Politics

Celebrations and a swift exit after a Burnham win ‘beyond our wildest dreams’

2024. With 54% of the vote, he finished about 20 percentage points ahead of Reform, despite Nigel Farage’s party’s vote share rising by 2.7 percentage points from the general election. The former health

The Guardian WorldYesterday
Politics

A political nerd’s guide to Britain’s by-election

significant shift in power. Most are quickly forgotten. Makerfield is different, in every sense. Here, a few thousand voters in this proudly unglamorous corner of England will choose the future direction

POLITICO PoliticsJun 8
Politics

How Reform won votes from Swansea to Sunderland

2024 general election looked like a return to the North East's natural order with Labour winning all but one of the region's constituencies. The majorities for the MPs though were shallow and Reform

BBC NewsMay 9
Politics

Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working?

party’s 2024 election manifesto](https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Labour-Party-manifesto-2024.pdf) – claiming it had come up with a way to nationalise trains “without costing taxpayers a penny in compensation”. Instead of an “all-at-once” approach, nationalising every

The Guardian WorldJun 18
Politics

Energy bills, business rates and HS2: What are Burnham's potential policies?

Party - and the country. During the by-election campaign, he set out a number of policy ideas. Burnham committed to the [economic rules Chancellor Rachel Reeves set](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7n8v34jvlo), in a signal that

BBC NewsJun 19
Politics

How the winner-takes-all voting system has turned on Labour and the Tories

2024 general election, when the Conservatives and Labour won 533 seats, while Reform and the Greens jointly were left with just nine, despite scoring over 20% of the vote between them. Indeed, rather than helping

BBC NewsMay 9
Politics

Saplings in prisons and bogs on military ranges: Labour’s plans for nature-friendly state land

Labour is [under pressure from the Green party](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/03/labour-fights-off-greens-leeds-roundhay), Emma Reynolds said such projects showed the government’s intent in restoring natural habitats. Under a scheme due to be confirmed in the coming

The Guardian WorldMay 4
Politics

Lib Dems to urge Labour to drop ‘torpor and timidity’ on EU and rejoin single market

significant step towards calling to rejoin the bloc. The Lib Dems took a more gradual approach at the last election, in contrast with 2019, when the words “stop Brexit” appeared in bold on the front

The Guardian WorldJun 17
Politics

Pound heads for worst week in 18 months as Burnham lines up Labour bid

2024. The pound fell against the dollar every day this week as leadership tensions gripped Westminster, culminating in the prospect of Burnham challenging Starmer for the role of PM after the Greater Manchester mayor [announced

The Guardian WorldMay 15
Politics

Speed up £250 cap on leasehold ground rent, MPs urge

party Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee said this should be brought forward to late 2027, arguing leaseholders have waited too long for successive governments to tackle the issue. The government said it was bringing

BBC NewsMay 26
Politics

Starmer under pressure as Labour suffers heavy election losses including historic Wales defeat

significant election losses. The results in England, Scotland and Wales have piled pressure on Sir Keir, with some Labour MPs calling for him to set a timetable for his departure, although his cabinet allies have

BBC NewsMay 8
Politics

Plaid Cymru tipped to be biggest party in Senedd, ending 100 years of Labour control

significant constitutional disputes with Downing Street. Rhun ap Iorwerth, the Plaid leader, had looked calm and confident as he arrived for his count at Venue Cymru in the north Wales seaside town of Llandudno, where

The Guardian WorldMay 8
Politics

‘This is not the country I moved to’: the British Indians showing support for Nigel Farage

significantly lower than that of the general UK population. However, there is a strong upwards trend in support,” the report said. Prakash is one example of this trend. She arrived in the UK from

The Guardian WorldApr 23
Politics

Tuesday briefing: After an historic shift in power, where might Plaid Cymru go next?

party has realised quite how different it’s going to be with Plaid in charge now,” Bethan says. “We are heading into uncharted waters.” In the first official call between ap Iorwerth

The Guardian WorldMay 19
Politics

Greenlandic woman wins case against Danish authorities who confiscated her child

2024 after Kronvold was subjected to so-called FKU (parental competence) psychometric tests. At the time she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilised enough”. The Danish government [abruptly banned

The Guardian WorldMay 8
Politics

Why UK’s Makerfield by-election matters far beyond one parliamentary seat

2024 general election in a landslide, Labour’s popularity has tanked over the past two years as support for the far-right, anti-immigration Reform UK has soared. In council elections last month, Reform [swept

Al Jazeera EnglishJun 17
Politics

Is it harder than ever to be prime minister?

significant power to a government with a majority," he says. "That this majority has not been deployed [to drive through change] to date is a failure of leadership rather than being indicative of a systematic

BBC NewsMay 16
Politics

Wes Streeting: PM-in-waiting or ‘this generation’s David Miliband’?

election. What had changed? In one sense, nothing more than events. Streeting’s ambition has long been a subject for open discussion and frequent jokes within Labour, including self-deprecating ones from the man himself

The Guardian WorldMay 13
Politics

Inside Canada’s ‘troubling’ shift on migrant, refugee rights

elections [File: Christoffer Andersen/EPA] ## Influx in temporary migration A settler-colonial state, Canada has encouraged successive waves of immigration throughout its history, from largely European settlement in the early to mid-1900s to specialised programmes

Al Jazeera EnglishJun 17
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