Labour expected to win UK election in landslide
Britain’s Labour Party was expected to win a landslide victory in yesterday’s election, defeating the Conservatives who had been in power for 14 years.
Exit polls conducted by the BBC and two other broadcasters predicted Labour would get 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons, while the Conservatives would get 131 seats. This is the latest news.
The result is a blow to the Conservative Party and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as British voters grow weary of a turbulent era that has seen austerity, Brexit, the coronavirus pandemic, a series of scandals under former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his successor, Liz Truss’s ill-fated tax cuts.
“This is a classic anti-incumbent vote,” said Mark Landler, our London bureau chief. “British voters are crying out for change.”
“They don’t believe Labour can deliver a radically different outcome than the Conservatives,” Landler added, “but at the moment, they’re willing to take that risk.”
Keir Starmer, the Labour leader who is set to become the next prime minister, will face issues that many British voters find intractable. These include immigration, repairing a severely underfunded and chronically short-staffed National Health Service, and turning around an economy that is struggling with high inflation and a cost-of-living crisis.
Overview: The British election was a step to the left that could provide a counterweight to the growing strength of the far right in European countries such as France and Germany. The result, Landler said, was that Starmer “almost looked like a bastion of liberal democracy.”
Iranians head to the polls
Today, a reformist and an ultra-conservative will face off in a runoff election to decide Iran’s next president. Here’s what you need to know.
Reformist candidate Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian said he would enter nuclear talks with Western countries to lift sanctions on Iran’s economy. The ultra-hardline candidate Saeed Jalili promised to break sanctions and strengthen economic ties with other countries.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei still decides major nuclear and national policies. He has approved indirect contacts with the United States to lift sanctions. Those efforts are likely to continue regardless of who wins.
on the ground: We spent six days in Tehran talking to residents, and almost without exception they had one main demand for the next president: Repair the economy.
Some work weeks in Greece can now last six days
A law that came into effect on Monday will allow some companies in Greece to Implementing a six-day work weekThe measure comes as many countries consider moving to a four-day working week.
The law applies mainly to workers in certain industries or manufacturing, or those working in businesses that work 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in shifts. The Greek government has tried to water down the measure, but unions and leftists have been furious. The left-wing opposition party Syriza called the legislation “a return to 19th-century working conditions.” Greece already has the longest average working hours in the European Union.
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A major shift in power is happening off Canada’s coast
The Haida have lived for thousands of years on the remote Haida Gwaii Islands off Canada’s west coast. The archipelago is known as Canada’s Galapagos Islands for its rich wildlife and long coveted by loggers for its forests.
In May, after decades of legal battles questioning Canada’s brutal colonial history, the British Columbia government passed a law Acknowledge the Haida’s ownership of the land. This is the first time that a provincial or federal government in Canada has been willing to recognize an Indigenous people’s land claim.
