Chud¹: he just saw an underage girl

Rosa_Ushiiromiya_Fan: On 22 May 2024 Prime Minoon Rishi Sunak announced that a general election would be held on 4 July 2024. Labour entered the general election with a large lead over the Conservatives in opinion polls (which had been the case since 2022), and the potential scale of the party's victory remained a topic of discussion throughout the campaign.[124][125]

In June 2024 Starmer released the Labour Party's 2024 manifesto, Change, which focused on economic growth, planning system changes, infrastructure, what Starmer describes as "clean energy", healthcare, education, childcare, and strengthening workers' rights.[126][127] It pledged a new publicly owned energy company (Great British Energy), a "Green Prosperity Plan", reducing patient waiting times in the NHS, and renationalisation of the railway network (Great British Railways).[128] Promising wealth creation together with "pro-business and pro-worker" policies,[129] the manifesto also pledged giving 16-year-olds the vote, reforming the House of Lords, and to tax private schools, with money generated going into improving state education.[130][131] On taxes, the day after the manifesto was released, Starmer pledged that not only would income tax, National Insurance, and VAT not be increased, but that, per their manifesto, their plans were fully costed and funded and would not require tax increases.[132]

Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory at the general election, ending fourteen years of Conservative government with Labour becoming the largest party in the House of Commons.[133] Labour achieved a 174-seat simple majority and a total of 411 seats, the party's third-best result in terms of seat-share following the 1997 and 2001 general elections. The party became the largest in England for the first time since 2005, in Scotland for the first time since 2010 and retained its status as the largest party in Wales.[134] Despite this, Labour won 34 per cent of the vote - the lowest of any party forming a majority government in the post-war era,[135] leading to concerns about the proportionality of the election.[136][137]

In his victory speech Starmer thanked Labour Party workers for their work - including nearly five years of revamping and rebranding Labour in the face of Conservative dominance - and urged them to savour the moment, but warned them of challenges ahead and pledged his government would seek "national renewal":[138][139]

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Thub: @Rosa_Ushiiromiya_Fan: marge but this greedy person never delivered. 'neration zyklon shall soon take reign