The Labour Party has won a landslide in the British general elections. With this vote, British voters have ended a 14-year-long Conservative rule, the ruling Conservative Party facing a humiliating defeat.
Labour Leader Keir Starmer has become the prime minister of Britain. Labour and Liberal Democrats are the real winners of this election while the Conservatives and Scottish National Party (SNP) are the real losers. The collapse in the support of both the Conservatives and the SNP paved the way for this massive Labour victory. Issues like the economy, immigration and the Palestine conflict played a key role in the demise of the Conservative Party.
The turnout was low at 60 per cent. It is the second-lowest turnout since 1885. The lowest turnout was 59 per cent in 2001. The turnout has been on the decline since 2001. The average turnout in the 1950s to 1990s was around 80 per cent. The low turnout means that many people have lost confidence in the political leadership.
Many people in the last couple of decades have concluded that no real change can come through elections. It has become increasingly difficult for voters to distinguish between political parties on the basis of their economic programmes and manifestos. All the mainstream parties have embraced the neoliberal free market ideology.
Differences still exist between the traditional rightwing capitalist Conservative Party and the social democratic Labour Party on many social issues like........