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      Clive Myrie mocks Tory MP for ‘depressing’ end to election interview: ‘Thank God it’s over’

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      BBC presenter Clive Myrie thanked Tory MP Steve Baker for a “depressing” end to his live general election interview.The former MP, who lost his Wycombe seat after 14 years in power to Labour candidate Emma Reynolds, said he “would not be coming back” as he listed the struggles facing MPs across the country.Mr Baker said: “I’m sad for our country because Labour are going to be a disaster.”He added: “I wanted to win this, but for me personally, thank God I’m free. It’s over, and I’m glad.”Mr Myrie replied: “Well that is a depressing way to end an interview Steve, thank you for that.” More

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      Nigel Farage heckled by several protesters during first speech as MP

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      At least seven hecklers interrupted Nigel Farage’s speech at a Reform UK press conference on Friday 5 July.The party’s leader was due to address to supporters and the media at around 2:30pm, but the event began with a person in the audience interrupting him and calls from others for the heckler to be removed.After the first man was removed, a number of other hecklers were escorted out of the Westminster venue.Mr Farage accused the first man who interrupted his speech of being “steaming” and shouted “boring” nine times as a second heckler started speaking.He was holding the press conference after Reform won four seats at the general election. More

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      Victoria Starmer’s response to supporters outside Downing Street after Labour election win

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      Victoria Starmer warmly greeted supporters outside 10 Downing Street alongside her husband Sir Keir Starmer following Labour’s victory in the UK general election.Aptly wearing a red dress, Mrs Starmer walked hand-in-hand with the new prime minister as they hugged supporters waiting along Downing Street on Friday (5 July).A smiling Mrs Starmer was captured on camera thanking supporters. At one point, she appeared to say to one supporter “At last”.Sir Keir promised to rebuild trust in politics and restore hope to the nation after a landslide Labour victory.In his first speech in Downing Street, Sir Keir said the British people had voted “decisively for change”. More

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      Watch live: Nigel Farage gives first speech as MP after Reform makes gains in 2024 General Election

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      Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Louise ThomasEditorWatch live as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds a press conferece on Friday (5 July) after he won a Commons seat in his egth attempt.Mr Farage promised his party would “stun all of you” as it picked up four Commons seats in the general election.Reform received more than four million votes, around 600,000 more than the Liberal Democrats, but thanks to the first-past-the-post system they won just four seats.Mr Farage will be joined in the Commons by former Tory Lee Anderson, party chairman Richard Tice and former Southampton FC chairman Rupert Lowe in being elected to Parliament.Speaking after winning the Clactom seat, Mr Farage said: “They’ve been around for 190 years. They’ve been amazingly resilient. But this could be, I think this is the beginning of the end of the Conservative Party.”Mr Farage also said there is now a “massive gap on the centre-right of British politics and my job is to fill it”.He added it is not just the Tories he is taking on, saying “we’re coming for Labour” and “this is just the first step of something that is going to stun all of you”. More

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      General election: Keir Starmer’s first speech as Labour prime minister in full

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      Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Louise ThomasEditorBritain’s new prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, promised to rebuild trust in politics and restore hope to the nation after a landslide Labour victory in the general election.Standing at the door to No 10 Downing Street, Sir Keir said the “urgent” work for change would start today.He pledged to put the NHS “back on its feet”, provide secure borders and safer streets and introduce clean British power to cut energy bills.He paid tribute to departing prime minister Rishi Sunak, who led the Tory’s worst election result in the party’s history.After 648 of the 650 Commons seats had been declared after polling, Labour had a majority of 176 with 412 seats.Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech at his official London residence at No 10 Downing Street (James Manning/PA) More

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      SNP admits Scottish independence is ‘a hard sell’ after losing 38 seats

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      Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Louise ThomasEditorThe SNP has just 18 months to save the case for Scottish independence after suffering a drubbing in the general election, its Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has admitted.The nationalists lost their position as Scotland’s dominant party in the House of Commons, losing 38 of 47 their seats – mostly to a resurgent Labour – and dealing a huge blow to their hopes of securing another independence referendum.It’s their lowest number of seats at Westminster since 2010, and means they have dropped from the third-largest party, with a question every week at PMQs, to the fourth-largest.With all but one of the 57 Scottish seats declared, Labour hold 37, the SNP nine and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats each have five; a recount in the Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat will not restart until 10.30am on Saturday.Labour is now the biggest party in Scotland, England and Wales – the first party to achieve this since Tony Blair’s Labour government of 2001.Stephen Flynn described the results as a black day for the SNP More

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      The last goodbyes: Watch Tory leaders resign throughout the years

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      Rishi Sunak stood in the rain and apologised after leading the Conservatives to their worst ever election result as a Labour landslide swept Sir Keir Starmer to No 10 on Friday morning (5 July).The outgoing prime minister also said he would quit as Tory leader once arrangements are in place to choose his successor, potentially triggering another round of Conservative infighting as MPs scramble to replace him.But he is not the first to stand in front of the famous black door of No 10 to announce his resignation.Here, The Independent takes a look at some of the most famous last goodbyes from leaders of years gone by. More

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      ‘Lefty lawyer’, Mark Darcy inspo but ‘lacking star power’: How American media covered UK’s new PM

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      Support trulyindependent journalismFind out moreCloseOur mission is to deliver unbiased, fact-based reporting that holds power to account and exposes the truth.Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts.Support us to deliver journalism without an agenda.Louise ThomasEditorThe UK has a new political leader and a new ruling party after Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won a historic landslide victory in the nation’s general election on Thursday.Winning 412 seats to just 122 for Conservatives, Rishi Sunak’s party spectacularly crashed out of power after 14 years.Britain’s short-lived former prime minister Liz Truss (who put in an appearance at CPAC in February) lost her seat, as did a host of other prominent Tories.Meanmwhile, MAGA ally Nigel Farage finally won a seat for his right-wing Reform UK party, in what marked his eighth attempt at joining the House of Commons.Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate, has already rushed to Truth Social to congratulate his old ally while remaining silent on Starmer’s triumph.President Joe Biden is expected to join other world leaders in putting in a call to Starmer as he enters 10 Downing Street later on Friday, with whoever wins November’s presidential election expected to forge a bond to ensure the fabled “special relationship” between the United States and Britain remains in rude health.But how has America’s news media reacted to these seismic political developments across the Atlantic? And what do they make of the UK’s new leader?Sir Keir Starmer is the UK’s new prime minister after the Labour party won the election in a landslide More