First votes on the election: “Encouraging result” – The reactions to the Labour victory | EUROtoday
“Encouraging result” – reactions to Labour’s victory


Labour's deputy occasion chief Angela Rayner
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According to forecasts, the Labour Party has gained a landslide victory within the UK parliamentary elections. After the preliminary shock for the Tories, worldwide politics has had its say. Labour's deputy occasion chief Angela Rayner calls the primary projections “encouraging”.
DThe opposition Labour Party has gained a landslide victory within the parliamentary elections in Great Britain, in line with post-election polls. The occasion of 61-year-old Keir Starmer can count on to win 410 of the 650 seats within the House of Commons, in line with post-election polls printed by a number of British broadcasters on Thursday night.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives, who’ve been in energy for 14 years, suffered their worst defeat for the reason that starting of the twentieth century with solely 131 seats and have been thus clearly voted out of workplace, as anticipated.
Starmer, who’s now about to take workplace as Prime Minister, thanked his many supporters on the net service X. “To everyone who campaigned for the Labour Party in this election, to everyone who voted for us and put their faith in our transformed Labour Party: thank you,” he wrote.
Labour's deputy occasion chief Angela Rayner reacted with noble restraint. It was an “encouraging result,” she informed the information channel Sky News shortly after the polls closed. It will in all probability take hours earlier than all of the votes are counted.
It can be anticipated that a number of incumbent cupboard members will lose their seats in parliament, together with Jeremy Hunt, the primary Chancellor of the Exchequer in British historical past. The former chief of the Conservatives in Scotland, Ruth Davidson, speaks of a “massacre”. Sky News reporter Beth Rigby describes the anticipated consequence as a “landslide”.
Shortly after the preliminary shock, worldwide politics has its say. SPD European politician Katarina Barley welcomes the election success of the Labour Party in Great Britain.
The overwhelming victory of the Social Democrats additionally provides the EU hope, Barley informed the German Press Agency. “I am delighted about the great opportunity that after years of tension with a Labour Prime Minister in London, a friendlier and more constructive tone is now being struck.” 14 years of conservative authorities, together with Brexit, have alienated the EU and the United Kingdom from one another.
The SPD and the Labour Party preserve shut relations. Barley's father is British. She was one of many Vice Presidents of the European Parliament in the latest legislative interval and her occasion's lead candidate within the European elections.
Great Britain is a crucial strategic EU accomplice
“A quick re-entry of Great Britain into the EU remains very unlikely,” admitted Barley. However, Great Britain is a crucial strategic accomplice of the European Union. “Both a Labour government and the EU have an interest in a new geopolitical partnership.” Barley pointed to shut coordination in protection coverage and in assist for Ukraine, which has been attacked by Russia.
Labour needs to enhance the mutual recognition {of professional} {qualifications}, mentioned the previous federal minister. She pressured: “It is important for the EU that London accepts the role of the European Court of Justice.” The earlier Tory authorities of Rishi Sunak had repeatedly indicated that it might withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights if its robust crackdown on irregular migration failed earlier than the European Court of Justice.
Federal Labour Minister Hubertus Heil despatched his “warmest congratulations” to the “friends from the Labour Party and the future Prime Minister Keir Starmer” on X. The SPD politician added: “Together, Social Democrats in London and Berlin will now open a new chapter of British-German friendship and cooperation. So important in these times!”
“Congratulations to Keir Starmer and the Labour Party,” wrote Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) on X.
The FDP expects the end result of the British parliamentary election to carry a couple of noticeable enchancment in German-British relations. “After the recent trials and tribulations of the United Kingdom, I am convinced that Keir Starmer will bring more political objectivity,” mentioned Ulrich Lechte, international coverage spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, in Berlin on Thursday. “The Labour Party's victory offers the opportunity to strengthen the European security architecture within NATO – after all, the UK is an important European troop provider.”
It will also be assumed that the profitable German-British defence cooperation shall be additional expanded beneath Labour. “I am confident that with Starmer as a former human rights lawyer, the focus will be on strengthening the rules-based world order; he can count on Germany's support in this.”
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