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Rishi Sunak, here outside 10 Downing Street in London, May 22, 2024.
UNITED KINGDOM – It definitely wasn’t Rishi Sunak’s day this Wednesday, May 22. After months of suspense, the British Prime Minister announced the holding of legislative elections on July 4, in front of 10 Downing Street in London.
In the rain, while his Conservative Party (the “Tories”) is largely losing out to the Labor Party (Labour) in the polls, and while a demonstrator had the idea of trying to cover his voice with the sound of Things Can Only Get Better by the group D:Ream… which became the Labor Party’s campaign anthem in the 1997 general elections.
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That year, the “Tories” largely won the polls, led by their leader Sir Tony Blair.
Released in 1993, the title Things Can Only Get Better enjoyed great success the following year thanks to a remix, topping the charts in the United Kingdom in January 1994. In 1997, it reappeared at the top of the British charts, repopularized thanks to the Labor campaign.
Keir Starmer, big favorite
Rishi Sunak has so far limited himself to talking about legislative elections “in the second semester” while the vote could be held in theory until January 2025. But faced with disastrous polls for the Tories, the pressure was growing stronger to clarify its intentions.
“Over the next few weeks, I will fight for every vote”said Rishi Sunak. “I will earn your trust and prove to you that only a conservative government led by me will not jeopardize our hard-won economic stability and will be able to restore pride and confidence in our country”he added, accusing Labor of not having “no plans”.
After 14 years of conservative power marked by the Brexit referendum and five Prime Ministers, the British seem determined to turn the page and send Labor Keir Starmer, a 61-year-old former lawyer to Downing Street.
“The time for change has come! »launched the latter after the announcement of the elections, presenting the Labor vote as a vote “for economic and political stability”. “We can end the chaos, we can turn the page, we can start to rebuild the UK and change our country”he insisted.
The polls give Labour, positioned on the centre-left, around 45% of voting intentions, far ahead of the Conservatives, between 20% and 25%, and the anti-immigration and anti-climate policy party Reform UK (12%). . With a simple first-past-the-post voting system in the UK’s 650 constituencies, such results would translate into a large majority for Labour.
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