As Sir Keir Starmer led the first full day of the new Labour government, he delivered a press conference addressing the nation as the new prime minister.
Setting out his first steps to lead the country, he promised not to raise taxes to fund the “broken” NHS and labelled the previous government’s Rwanda scheme a gimmick that was “dead and buried before it started”.
He made a raft of appointments on his first day in Downing Street, including Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first female chancellor and David Lammy as foreign secretary, who called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The party won one of the biggest parliamentary majorities in history, with 412 seats — a majority of 176.
After the Conservative Party’s defeat, with just 121 seats, preparations are under way for a leadership contest, with Suella Braverman, Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly, and Priti Patel all tipped as potential contenders to replace Rishi Sunak.
