Here’s the latest news on the British election ¹ ² ³:
– An exit poll projected the Conservative Party garnered 131 seats, with the Labour Party forecast to win 410 seats.
– British voters were not directly electing a new leader on Thursday. Under the United Kingdom’s parliamentary system, voters choose their local representatives for the lower house of Parliament, the House of Commons.
– The Labour Party, which leans to the left, is far ahead in most opinion polls after focusing its campaign on a single word: Change.
– The party that commands a majority in the Commons, either alone or with the support of another party, will form the next government and its leader will be prime minister.
– Keir Starmer is the leader of the Labour Party, while Sunak is leading the Conservative Party in the election.
– If a party achieves a majority, the leader becomes the prime minister, and the leader of the party with the second-highest number of MPs typically becomes the leader of the opposition.
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