NATO summit, mending EU relations among first tasks for Keir Starmer
Starmer began putting together his government soon after he walked through the door of 10 Downing St. On Friday afternoon following his landslide election victory.
LONDON: New British Prime Minister Keir Starmer doesn’t get to take a breather. After a draining six-week election campaign, the center-left politician must get straight to work assembling his government, tackling a mountain of domestic problems and putting his stamp on the U.K.’s relations with the rest of the world.
It’s a daunting list for a new leader who has never served in, much less led, a government. But Starmer, who was officially appointed prime minister Friday, insisted that he is up to the challenge of heading the U.K. in a world that is “a more volatile place” than it has been for many years.
Like someone moving into a new home with their IKEA furniture, Starmer’s first task was to assemble a Cabinet.
Starmer began putting together his government soon after he walked through the door of 10 Downing St. On Friday afternoon following his landslide election victory. He has a plethora of lawmakers to choose from – his Labour Party won more than 400 seats in Thursday’s election, almost two-thirds of the 650 in the House of Commons.
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