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Rishi Sunak as Britain's first Prime Minister of Indian origin and the leader of the Conservative Party — fighting anti-incumbency of 14 years — hangs in the balance as millions of voters cast their ballots in a historic general election on Thursday. The British Indian leader and the man who wants his job — Labour leader Keir Starmer were among the early voters from an estimated 46 million registered voters as around 40,000 polling booths opened across the country at 7 am local time. Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty walked hand-in-hand to their local polling booth on a sunny day in his constituency of Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire, northern England. A little later, Starmer and wife Victoria were at their polling station in Camden, north London, sporting Labour red colours.

Keir Starmer finally has the mandate and credentials to shake off the historical burden which has dogged ties between India and Britain’s Labour Party since the 1930s, a long arc that began with the jaundiced view taken of Mahatma Gandhi by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour’s first elected prime minister, and terminated in former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s apparent positions on Indian policy. Starmer, who took his Labour Party to a historic landslide win in Britain’s Parliamentary elections, now has the tailwind to re-imagine London’s ties with India, which is the world’s fastest growing major economy and gaining heft.

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer will kickstart his plan to «rebuild Britain» on his first full day in charge Saturday, after his party's landslide election win ended 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer spent his first hours in Downing Street on Friday appointing his ministerial team, hours after securing centre-left Labour's return to power with a whopping 174-seat majority in the UK parliament. He is expected to hold his first cabinet meeting on Saturday, with Britain's first woman finance minister Rachel Reeves and new Foreign Secretary David Lammy in attendance.

Labour Party in a parliamentary election, the party will come to power after 14 years under its leader Keir Starmer. The center-left party's stance on India has traditionally leaned towards separatist movements. While it had backed the separatist movement in J&K, many of its leaders are known for promoting Khalistan. The party's resolution during an annual conference under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of international intervention in Kashmir was widely seen as having cost it British Indian votes in the 2019 general election. The Labour Party has been seen as «anti-India» by many. In 2021, it was branded “divisive” and “anti-India” by many in the Indian diaspora after a party leaflet for a by-election in northern England used an image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The leaflet showed Modi in a handshake with then Conservative Party Prime Minister Boris Johnson at the G7 Summit in 2019 with the message “Don't risk a Tory MP who is not on your side”. It triggered furious reactions across social media after Tory MP Richard Holden posted an image of it on Twitter, questioning whether it implies that Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer would not be seen in a handshake with the Indian Prime Minister.

Tulip Siddiq, reportedly set to become the UK’s City Minister, is expected to support tokenization and digital asset initiatives.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said he would seek to improve the trade deal with the European Union as he began a two-day tour of the U.K. as part of an “immediate reset” with governments in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

Britain, senior officials of India and the UK will hold the next round of talks this month for the proposed free trade agreement to resolve the pending issues and close the negotiations, an official said. The India-UK talks for the proposed free trade agreement (FTA) began in January 2022. The 14th round of talks stalled as the two nations stepped into their general election cycles. The official said the two sides are in touch, and the next round would start this month only. Britain's newly-elected Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday and said he stood ready to conclude an FTA that worked for both sides.

WASHINGTON—The White House once hoped the NATO summit that opens Tuesday would showcase President Biden’s leadership of the trans-Atlantic alliance and his differences with Donald Trump. Instead it has become a pivotal test of his fitness for a second term. A solid performance during the three-day gathering of North Atlantic Treaty Organization leaders could help shore up his candidacy, reminding voters of his support for the 75-year-old military partnership that his predecessor regularly attacked.

Labour Party headed for a landslide victory Friday in a parliamentary election, an exit poll and partial returns indicated, as voters punished the governing Conservatives after 14 years of economic and political upheaval. As the sun rose, official results showed Labour had 326 of the 650 seats, as vote counting continued. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had already acknowledged the defeat and said he called center-left Labour's leader Keir Starmer to congratulate him on becoming the country's next prime minister. Starmer will face a jaded electorate impatient for change against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric.

The first one to arrive at 10 Downing Street for a meeting with the PM, Reyner will also hold the position of secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, succeeding Conservative rival Michael Gove. Rachel Reeves was appointed chancellor of the exchequer, succeeding former Tory cabinet member Jeremy Hunt. Reeves is UK's first female chancellor in the history of the job and formerly served as shadow minister for Labour for the past three years. David Lammy was also appointed foreign secretary, taking over from David Cameron and Yvette Cooper is now home secretary. O...

The UK general election has resulted in a significant victory for the Labour Party.

Keir Starmer said Saturday that he is scrapping his predecessor's controversial policy to deport asylum-seekers to Rwanda as he vowed to deliver on voters' mandate for change, though he warned it will not happen quickly. «The Rwanda scheme was dead and buried before it started,» Starmer said in his first news conference since the Labour Party swept Conservatives from power after 14 years. «It's never acted as a deterrent. Almost the opposite.» Starmer told reporters in a wood-paneled room at 10 Downing St. that he was «restless for change,» but would not commit to how soon Britons would feel improvements in their standards of living or public services.

Speaking for the first time in front of 10 Downing Street on Friday (5 July), Starmer said the UK has voted «decisively for change and for national renewal», and that he will govern «country first, party second». He said he is ready to rebuild the UK's «infrastructure of opportunity … brick by brick», but caveated it will «take some time» before any change will become visible. Rishi Sunak resigns as prime minister ahead of stepping down as Conservative Party leader «When the gap between the sacrifices made by people and the service they receive from politicians grows this big, it l...

Rishi Sunak on Sunday dismissed suggestions that his party was headed to defeat in the July 4 general election, using one of his final televised appearances to defend the Conservatives' record on the economy.

UK's Opposition Labour Party, hoping to win a mandate to form a government after the July 4 general election, has committed itself to stamping out anti-India sentiments within its ranks and building a strong strategic partnership with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration. The party's resolution during an annual conference under former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in favour of international intervention in Kashmir was widely seen as having cost it British Indian votes in the 2019 general election.

The U.K. general election on July 4 is just days away now no doubt to the relief of the party leaders who have crisscrossed the country in a grueling month of campaigning

Britain's economy grew 0.7% in the first three months of this year compared with the previous quarter, above an initial estimate of 0.6% growth, official figures showed on Friday. The figures come less than a week before Britons vote in an election which opinion polls suggest will see Labour Party leader Keir Starmer replace Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

The U.K. general election is nearly two weeks away

Reform UK's top leader Nigel Farage, in an interview with BBC, had claimed that the West had somehow 'provoked' Vladimir Putin to go into war against the Ukraine, a statement that has received severe criticism from leaders like Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer, says an Evening Standard report.

Any hopes the governing Conservative Party may have of the Bank of England cutting its main interest rate from a 16-year high of 5.25% are expected to be dashed

Bank of England was set to hold its interest rate steady on Thursday despite slowing UK inflation, with higher price risks and Britain's looming election preventing a cut, according to analysts. The BoE was widely forecast to keep its cost of borrowing at 5.25 percent, a 16-year high, following a regular monetary policy meeting.