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Keir Starmer Is U.K.’s New Prime Minister
NYT ^ | 7/5/24 | Stephen Castle, Mark Landler and Megan Specia

Posted on 07/05/2024 9:45:52 AM PDT by Round Earther

Keir Starmer became prime minister of Britain on Friday after his Labour Party delivered a decisive win in the general election.

“Across our country, people will be waking up to the news that a weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed from the shoulders of this nation,” a jubilant Mr. Starmer told supporters in central London in the early hours of Friday morning.

Using the analogy of a rising “sunlight of hope,” pale at first and getting stronger, he said the country had “an opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: primeminister; starmer; uk
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1 posted on 07/05/2024 9:45:52 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: Round Earther
Was he a WEF young leader?

He has certainly been at various WEF events.


2 posted on 07/05/2024 9:49:38 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: Round Earther
NYT journo-babe Megan Specia is easy on the eyes:


3 posted on 07/05/2024 9:50:06 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Round Earther

Barf.


4 posted on 07/05/2024 9:50:53 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: nwrep

Communist.


5 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:00 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Round Earther

He wants to make Britain a ‘”clean energy superpower”, removing fossil fuels from all of Britain’s electricity generation by 2030

OK


6 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:44 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: who knows what evil?

No doubt.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: butlerweave

In just six years?
Most of those voters would say Starmer was ‘having a laugh’.


8 posted on 07/05/2024 9:55:21 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: who knows what evil?
Problem is that their so-called Tories are bigger squishes than our RINOs.
9 posted on 07/05/2024 9:55:40 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Round Earther

What’s left of manufacturing will go away, unemployment will skyrocket, taxes will rise and crime will increase and spread to rural communities.
Yeah


10 posted on 07/05/2024 9:57:22 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald )
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To: Round Earther
Brits, if you think the Tories were bad, you ain’t seen nothing yet.


11 posted on 07/05/2024 10:00:22 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Round Earther
Different boot, same neck.

12 posted on 07/05/2024 10:03:10 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: nwrep

that is one good looking nazi


13 posted on 07/05/2024 10:05:38 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: Round Earther

The sun has long set on the British empire.


14 posted on 07/05/2024 10:07:05 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: AndyJackson

Not all.....just weak leadership.


15 posted on 07/05/2024 10:07:53 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: joshua c

Getting by on her looks will soon end. She’s starting to get the neck creases...heading for Commie hagdom.


16 posted on 07/05/2024 10:08:40 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: nwrep

“ NYT journo-babe Megan Specia is easy on the eyes:”
Yep, but where is she on the hot-crazy matrix?


17 posted on 07/05/2024 10:11:37 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: wjcsux

You have to ask? She is a so-called journalist for the NY Times, which is at least two striks.


18 posted on 07/05/2024 10:18:43 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: butlerweave

The UK has joined Russia and Yemen on the list of counties I won’t visit. There’s no point in it.


19 posted on 07/05/2024 10:22:16 AM PDT by henkster (He's got a day time job; he's doing all right)
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To: Round Earther

At this rate, the sun will never rise on a British empire.


20 posted on 07/05/2024 10:35:00 AM PDT by I-ambush (From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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