Newly elected British leader Keir Starmer faces a House of Commons milestone on Wednesday. He'll field lawmakers’ queries at the boisterous weekly Prime Minister’s Questions session. It’s the first such session since Starmer’s Labour Party won a landslide election victory on July 4, returning to power after 14 years.
Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrives at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England, Monday, July 22, 2024.Artist Kaya Mar holds up a picture at the entrance gate before Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Ministers’ Questions session in parliament in London , Wednesday, July 24, 2024.
Starmer is more accustomed to asking the questions after spending four years as leader of the opposition to a Conservative government. Former Prime MinisterLabour won a landslide election victory on July 4 on a promise to get the U.K.’s sluggish economy growing, unleash a wave of housebuilding and green energy projects and patch the country’s
Labour’s large majority means Starmer should easily be able to pass legislation. But he has already had to quell a rebellion, suspending seven Labour lawmakers for voting against the party over social welfare. The government is under pressure from anti-poverty groups and many Labour lawmakers to scrap a policy introduced by the Conservatives that limits a widely paid welfare benefit and tax credit to a family’s first two children. The new government says itUK’s new government announces legislation for ‘national renewal’ as Parliament opens with royal pompOn Tuesday night, seven Labour lawmakers on the left of the party sided with an opposition call to scrap the limit.
Zarah Sultana, one of the suspended legislators, said she had “slept well knowing that I took a stand against child poverty that is affecting 4.3 million people in this country.”
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