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On Wednesday, Charles III will deliver the King’s Speech, setting out the government’s planned new laws for the next Parliamentary session and beyond. The speech will be scrutinised even more intensely than usual as Sir Keir Starmer attempts to relaunch his premiership after a disastrous set of election results for Labour. Here is what we think will be in the ...

UK leader Keir Starmer swept to power promising to end years of chaos in British politics, but numerous policy U-turns, controversies and rock-bottom poll ratings see him teetering on the precipice. In his first speech as prime minister on 5 July, 2024, Starmer promised a government of “service” that would “tread more lightly” on people’s lives following 14 years of ...

Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday vowed to prove his doubters wrong and stem mounting calls for him to step down after disastrous local and regional elections for his ruling Labour party. But more than 60 of Labour’s 403 MPs asked him to step down, unconvinced by his pledge to make the party bolder and better to assuage disgruntled ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : In the recent UK local government elections, 80 British citizens of Bangladeshi descent have been elected as councillors across four predominantly Bangladeshi-populated boroughs in East London. Those are: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Redbridge, and Barking & Dagenham. Local political analysts have hailed this as one of the most significant milestones in the political history of the British-Bangladeshi ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : The Green Party’s Zoë Garbett has vowed she will “change the system”, after being elected mayor of Hackney. The win ousted Labour, which has held the mayoralty since the directly-elected position was created in 2002. Speaking after the results, Ms Garbett said: “Today we start a fightback. “In this election, over and over, people kept telling ...

Reform UK has made significant gains at the expense of Labour and the Conservatives in council election results in England so far. The polls across Scotland, Wales and 136 English local authorities are the biggest set of elections since the 2024 general election and a key test for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. As most councils did not begin counting ...

This thread is the 2026 local election results for Merton Going into the election, Labour held 29 seats, Liberal Democrats 16, Conservatives seven, Merton Park Ward Residents Association 2, Independents 1, and one seat is vacant. Total number of confirmed councillors: 57/57 Labour: 32 Liberal Democrat: 19 Conservative: 4 Merton Park Ward Residents Association: 2 Turnout: 45.1% Ward by ward ...

British voters cast ballots Thursday in local and regional elections that could shake up the country’s politics and deliver a heavy blow to embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer’s center-left Labour Party is bracing for big losses in polls that will choose about 5,000 local councilors and a handful of mayors across England, as well as semiautonomous parliaments in Scotland ...

Local government elections taking place across England on Thursday are drawing attention to the growing political presence of British Bangladeshi candidates, particularly in London but increasingly in other parts of the country as well. What was once largely concentrated in East London is now spreading beyond the British capital. Candidates of Bangladeshi heritage are contesting seats across England, signalling a ...

Londoners are heading to the polls to elect more than 1,800 councillors across the capital’s 32 boroughs. The mayors of Croydon, Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets will be elected at the same time. More than six million London residents are eligible to vote in the local elections. The borough councils run services such as bin collections and adult social ...