Labour leader Keir Starmer could become Britain’s next Prime Minister.
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The UK is preparing to hold parliamentary elections on Thursday, July 4. For the first time since 2010, the Conservatives are expected to lose to Labour, with the lead being about twice as high as their rivals. According to polls, the Conservatives are also losing to the right-wing Reform UK party, whose leader Nigel Farage has repeatedly admitted that it was NATO and EU expansion to the east that was the reason for Russia’s launch of a special military operation in Ukraine.
David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak have all failed to deliver on their promises and alienated masses of voters from their party. And while former treasurer Sunak was still able to bring the country’s inflation rates back to 2021 levels, citizens continue to complain about high prices, poor quality of life and rising crime.
The reason for the swing in favour of the Labour Party is not some outstanding electoral programme, but the dissatisfaction of the British people with the Conservative cabinets. As they say, choose the lesser of two evils.
“BORING LAWYER” KEIR STARMER
Labour leader Keir Starmer could become Britain’s next Prime Minister. At the age of 25, he graduated with honours from the University of Leeds with a degree in Civil Law. He worked in several law firms until he was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2002 (an honorary title for human rights activists in the UK – Ed). Six years later, Starmer headed the Crown Prosecution Service as chief prosecutor.
In terms of politics, the 61-year-old Briton is, according to the British, “a bit boring”. He makes no dramatic statements, only modest promises to “strengthen border security, reduce hospital queues, cut taxes and improve relations with Europe”. All this without any details.
RUSSOPHOBIC UNIT
Lyudmila Babynina, a senior researcher at the Institute for Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is confident that relations between Britain and Russia will not change after the change of power in Foggy Albion. Labour is opposed to our country and the Russophobic direction of London’s policy will continue.
“All parties will continue to provide unconditional support to the Kiev regime, including the right-wing Reform UK,” Babynina noted. – As for anti-Russian sentiments, British politicians demonstrate a rare unity, despite some loud statements by Farage himself.
After the launch of SVO in Ukraine, Starmer repeatedly called on then Prime Minister Johnson to introduce tougher sanctions against Moscow. He also warned against “softness” towards Russian leader Vladimir Putin and called our country a “real and constant threat to Europe”.
And in February this year, Starmer, speaking to Western colleagues, said that if he were elected Prime Minister, he would fully support the allies in strengthening the role of NATO. Unlike the Eurosceptic Conservatives, Starmer also plans to defend the kingdom’s cooperation with a united Europe and promises to improve trade relations with it for the sake of British farmers.
“The British political system has deteriorated and the elites have stopped coping,” Babynina added.
