Yahoo News General Election 2024: What do the new prime minister’s first few days look like?
General Election 2024: What do the new prime minister’s first few days look like?
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The TelegraphSuella Braverman’s Tory leadership campaign dealt blow as key ally abandons her
Suella Braverman’s prospective Conservative leadership campaign has been dealt a blow after a key ally abandoned her.
- The Telegraph
Why the Muslim Vote campaign is a glimpse into a horrifying future
When the circus finally arrived, it offered the usual attractions. The old rituals were a comfort. John Curtice, the swing-o-meter, Laura Kuenssberg and Jeremy Vine performed the familiar motions, not to mention the irrepressible Count Binface.
- The Telegraph
Get ready to pay per mile under Labour
Many commentators have been using adjectives like devastating and seismic to describe the significance of the election result.
- The Telegraph
Every Tory MP is to blame for this defeat – myself included
Who’s to blame? All of us – every Conservative MP in the last Parliament – has a share of the blame for this defeat. For my part, I made life harder for my Party by calling publicly for tougher policy on migration and defence, and so made negative headlines about Tory splits and factions.
- Manchester Evening News
Home of Labour MP 'attacked with sledgehammer' days after landslide election win
'I will not be cowed'
- The Telegraph
Will the Starmers be the first prime ministerial family since the Wilsons not to live in Downing Street?
The move to Downing Street is a symbolic moment for any incoming prime minister, the most obvious proof of your drastically changed situation. You do not merely run the shop, as Mrs Thatcher said, you live above it. Downing Street is one of the most prestigious political residences on Earth, perhaps second only to the White House. For five years, barring calamity, it is yours, for you to decorate with all the golden Lulu Lytle wallpaper you like.
- PA Media: UK News
Labour Government could be in trouble pretty quickly, claims Nigel Farage
The Reform UK leader who is also the new MP for Clacton, watched East Thurrock Community Football Club in Corringham on Saturday.
- HuffPost UK
Putin's Foreign Minister Had Quite The Bizarre Take On Labour's Landslide Victory
A bit of head-scratcher, this one.
- Manchester Evening News
Every plan Labour has for Universal Credit, PIP, State Pension and cost of living
Here is everything the Labour Party has committed to improve employment and living costs in its party manifesto
- The Telegraph
Iranian warship capsizes in Gulf port ‘accident’
An Iranian warship capsized while undergoing port repairs, killing two officers and injuring several others.
- The Telegraph
SNP hits out at Sturgeon’s political punditry on ITV as ‘pontification’
Nicola Sturgeon is facing an SNP backlash for “pontificating” on her party’s election disaster during a lucrative TV appearance.
- HuffPost
Michael Moore Reveals His ‘Heartbreaking’ Conclusion About Biden
The filmmaker had blunt words for the president in a new MSNBC interview.
- HuffPost UK
Susanna Reid Skewers Tory For Claiming There Is 'Little Appetite' For Labour After Landslide Win
Kevin Hollinrake made the bizarre claim on Good Morning Britain.
- The Telegraph
British Jews have reason to be frightened. This time it’s not Labour
On October 8, as the world was beginning to comprehend what had just happened in southern Israel, most decent people – including many who would go on to decry Israel’s retaliatory campaign – expressed genuine horror at what Gaza’s Islamist barbarians had done. But a substantial minority was openly cheering. Not just in Turkey and Iran, but in Toronto and London.
- The Telegraph
Labour is doomed unless it acts fast on migration and the NHS
You can point to Rishi Sunak’s poor leadership, you can talk about the Tories’ endless pointless errors. However, fundamentally, the Conservatives were ejected from office because NHS waiting lists were too long, the economy was weak, and immigration was uncontrolled.
- Sky News
This result might be the biggest surprise in the history of French elections
France will not have a far-right government, but that answer, that single fact, does not cover another crucial point. What's clear is that the French parliament will be split between three factions. The biggest, but well short of an absolute majority, will be a left-wing coalition, called the New Popular Front.
- Oxford Mail
Anneliese Dodds replaced as Labour party chair as she prepares for new role
Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds has been replaced as Labour Party chairwoman by Ellie Reeves.
- The Telegraph
Germany is ‘classical battleground in Putin’s hybrid war on Nato’
Germany has become a “battleground” in Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war on Nato due to decades of lax security and pro-Russian sympathisers in the east, a senior intelligence chief has warned.
- The National
Nicola Sturgeon 'personality cult' blamed for SNP defeat as 'apology' demanded
NICOLA Sturgeon should apologise for the SNP’s election defeat, according to a former MP while another blamed the former first minister for creating a damaging “personality cult” around herself.
- The Daily Beast
Trump Ripped for Denying Project 2025 Connections, Despite the Evidence
Media outlets and political pundits have ripped into Donald Trump after he claimed to have no knowledge about Project 2025.Amid growing calls to address the right-wing plan, which has seemingly emerged from the dark corners of the internet overnight, Trump took to Truth Social to deny his involvement in a way that left many scratching their heads.“I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're s