- Title: Mixed feelings among Londoners as Labour Party returns to power
- Date: 5th July 2024
- Summary: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK (JULY 5, 2024) (REUTERS) LONDON BUSES OUTSIDE CHARING CROSS STATION PEOPLE CROSSING ROAD IN RAIN (SOUNDBITE) (English) 33-YEAR-OLD, WHO WORKS IN RESEARCH, FROM LONDON, JAMIE GOLLINGS, SAYING: ''Yeah. I feel. I feel. I feel better today than I did yesterday. I feel pretty tired I was up all night watching it. So, yeah, so excited for some thing new to happen, I think. I think the country needs it. It's not the same. You know, I was a child in 97. I don't think it's quite it's quite that kind of spirit. But I'm hopeful that the new government will come in with some plans. I think you. I think if they move quickly, then we kind of might be able to find some hope, even though it doesn't feel like they managed to find it in the campaign so much.’' LONDON BUSES OUTSIDE CHARING CROSS STATION PEOPLE CROSSING ROAD IN RAIN (SOUNDBITE) (English) 48-YEAR-OLD, SECURITY GUARD, FROM DARTFORD, OLUMITE TELIOLA, SAYING: ''I feel the future will be better, I think the future will be more better now. So since the Labour Party is it is in power now. I feel the country more better in terms of job and in terms of safety. So there will be more of protection in the country. And more jobs for the country. '' VARIOUS OF CHARING CROSS TRAIN STATION (SOUNDBITE) (English) 33-YEAR-OLD, WHO WORKS IN TECH, FROM LONDON, CALLUM BALLARD, SAYING: ''I feel like having competent adults in the room again is going to be a big help. Like governing a country should be complicated and it shouldn't be a thing that is done by people who are just jockeying for personal advantage in the way that we have maybe seen. My feel with Labour coming in and the way that they have changed in the last few years is that we are going to get that again. So if we stand a chance to have that, I think that is what they can deliver. '' PEOPLE WALKING TOWARDS STATION (SOUNDBITE) (English) JULIE (NO SURNAME GIVEN), SAYING: ''Well, I don't think anything is going to change. No, it's been going on for years. Has anything been changed? No.'' PEOPLE WALKING UNDER SHELTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) 60-YEAR-OLD, GLASS INSTALLER, FROM DARTFORD, CHRIS CARTER, SAYING: ''I don't think a lot of change, to be honest. They’ve got the doctors to sort out, the railway to sort out, it's a big job for whoever gets it. So we just have to hope it’s sorted.'' CARICATURE PAINTINGS OF PARTY LEADERS BY ARTIST KAYA MAR (SOUNDBITE) (English) ARTIST, FROM LONDON, KAYA MAR, SAYING: ''People need the change. Now we have a change, but what that change will bring is waiting to see because as no money, without the money, no growth. Without the growth, you cannot, you cannot make public services work properly.'' VARIOUS OF KAYA MAR WITH PAINTINGS (SOUNDBITE) (English) 65-YEAR-OLD, BRICK LAYER, FROM LONDON, DERRY NELSON, SAYING: ''Very bad, very bad I've (voted) Conservative all my life. Never voted nothing else ever and I will never vote for them again. I'm Reform all the way.'' BUSES / TRAFALGAR SQUARE
- Embargoed: 19th July 2024 07:31
- Keywords: Election Keir Starmer Labour Sunak politics
- Location: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- City: LONDON, ENGLAND, UK
- Country: UK
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
- Reuters ID: LVA001640605072024RP1
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- Story Text:Some people in London on Friday (July 5) said they were excited after the Labour Party won the general election, while others did not expect major changes to take place.
Jamie Gollings, 33, from London said he was ''excited for some thing new to happen'' after staying up all night to watch the results.
Referencing when Tony Blair was elected in 1997, he said he doesn't feel the ''same spirit'' now but is hopeful that the ''new government will come in with some plans.''
Keir Starmer is set to be Britain's next prime minister with his Labour Party winning a massive majority in a parliamentary election, with Rishi Sunak on the end of an historic thumping for his Conservative Party.
Despite the scene change some people don't think Starmer's party will make a difference to life in the UK.
''I don't think a lot of (will) change, to be honest,'' said 60-year-old Chris Carter.
''They’ve got the doctors to sort out, the railway to sort out, it's a big job for whoever gets it,'' he said.
Britain's outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will make a statement in Downing Street at around 0930 GMT before meeting with King Charles to formally resign, his office said on Friday after the opposition Labour Party won a landslide election victory.
The newly elected Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer will then meet with Charles at Buckingham Palace before making a speech in Downing Street at around 1120 GMT, the statement added.
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