{"id":964423,"date":"2024-07-05T12:52:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964423"},"modified":"2024-07-05T12:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:52:34","slug":"uks-newly-elected-starmer-makes-first-speech-as-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/uks-newly-elected-starmer-makes-first-speech-as-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"UK&#8217;s newly-elected Starmer makes first speech as PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer made his first speech as leader outside Downing Street on Friday after his Labour Party won a national election with a huge majority.<\/p>\n<p>Greeted in Downing Street by a large crowd of cheering aides and supporters after formally accepting the King&#8217;s invitation to become prime minister, Starmer&#8217;s first address made the case for a moderate politics to repair voters&#8217; broken trust.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have just returned from Buckingham Palace, where I accepted an invitation from his Majesty the King, to form the next government of this great nation,&#8221; he told the crowds outside number 10, now his new residence.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer thanked outgoing Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, acknowledging his &#8220;achievement&#8221; as the first British Asian UK leader, paying tribute to the &#8220;extra effort&#8221; that entailed.<\/p>\n<p>The Labour Party on Friday surged to a landslide victory in a parliamentary election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starmer thanked outgoing Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":964424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1277],"tags":[686],"class_list":["post-964423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-2","tag-rishi-sunak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}