Prime Minister Keir Starmer held his first Cabinet meeting Saturday as his new government takes on the massive challenge of fixing a heap of domestic woes and winning over a public weary from years of austerity, political chaos and a battered economy.
\nStarmer welcomed the new ministers around the table at 10 Downing St., saying it had been the honor of his life to be asked by King Charles III to form a government in a ceremony that officially elevated him to prime minister.
\nStarmer\u2019s Labour Party delivered the biggest blow to the Conservatives in their two-century history Friday in a landslide victory on a platform of change.
\nAmong a raft of problems they face are boosting a sluggish economy, fixing a broken health care system, and restoring trust in government.
\n\u201cJust because Labour won a big landslide doesn\u2019t mean all the problems that the Conservative government has faced has gone away,\u201d said Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London.
\nIn his first remarks as prime minister Friday after the meeting \u201ckissing of hands\u201d ceremony with Charles at Buckingham Palace, Starmer said he would get to work immediately, though he cautioned it would take some time to show results.,
\n\u201cChanging a country is not like flicking a switch,\u201d he said as enthusiastic supporters cheered him outside his new official residence at 10 Downing. \u201cThis will take a while. But have no doubt that the work of change begins \u2014 immediately.\u201d
\nStarmer singled out several of the big items, such as fixing the revered but hobbled National Health Service and securing its borders, a reference a larger global problem across Europe and the US of absorbing an influx of migrants fleeing war, poverty as well as drought, heat waves and floods attributed to climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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