{"id":87823,"date":"2024-07-04T22:58:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T22:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/friday-briefing-labour-projected-to-win-u-k-election\/"},"modified":"2024-07-04T22:58:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T22:58:16","slug":"friday-briefing-labour-projected-to-win-u-k-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/04\/friday-briefing-labour-projected-to-win-u-k-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Briefing: Labour Projected to Win U.K. Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/04\/multimedia\/05ambriefing-asia-nl-uk\/05ambriefing-asia-nl-uk-facebookJumbo.jpg?resize=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Friday Briefing: Labour Projected to Win U.K. Election\" title=\"Friday Briefing: Labour Projected to Win U.K. Election\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-71c35da8\">Labour expected to win British election in a landslide<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Britain\u2019s Labour Party was projected to win a landslide election victory yesterday, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">An exit poll conducted for the BBC and two other broadcasters predicted that Labour won 410 seats to the Tories\u2019 131 in the 650-member House of Commons. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/07\/04\/world\/uk-election-results\" title=\"\">Here\u2019s the latest.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The results were a blow for the Tories and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. Britain\u2019s electorate showed its weariness with a turbulent era that spanned austerity, Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the serial scandals of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the ill-fated tax-cutting proposals of his successor, Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt is a classic anti-incumbent vote,\u201d said Mark Landler, our London bureau chief. \u201cBritish voters are desperate for a change.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019re not persuaded that the Labour Party can deliver radically different results than the Conservatives,\u201d Landler added, \u201cbut at this point, they\u2019re willing to take the chance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Keir Starmer, the Labour leader who is set to become the next prime minister, will be faced with problems that many British voters worry are intractable. They include immigration, fixing the National Health Service \u2014 which is deeply underfunded and faces chronic staffing shortages \u2014 and righting the economy, which is struggling with high inflation that is contributing to a cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Big picture: <\/strong>Britain\u2019s election was a move toward the left, a potential counterweight to the growing strength of the far right in European countries like France and Germany. The result, Landler said, is that Starmer could \u201cappear almost like a bulwark for liberal democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-66c3149a\">Iranians head to the polls<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A reformist and an ultraconservative will compete in a runoff election today to decide Iran\u2019s next president. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/02\/world\/middleeast\/iran-runoff-election.html\" title=\"\">Here\u2019s what you need to know.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reformist candidate, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, has said he would engage with the West in nuclear talks to lift the sanctions plaguing Iran\u2019s economy. Saeed Jalili, the ultra hard-liner, has promised to defeat sanctions and strengthen economic ties with other countries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Major nuclear and state policies are still decided by the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He has already approved indirect engagement with the U.S. to lift the sanctions. Those efforts are likely to continue regardless of who wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">On the ground:<\/strong> We spent six days in Tehran speaking with residents. Almost without exception, they had one major demand for their next president: <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/04\/world\/middleeast\/iran-economy.html\" title=\"\">Fix the economy.<\/a> <\/p>\n<hr class=\"css-7ad88g e1mu4ftr0\"\/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-11eaa5bc\">Some workweeks in Greece can now last six days<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A law that went into effect on Monday will allow some companies in Greece to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/04\/world\/europe\/greece-six-day-workweek.html\" title=\"\">enforce a six-day workweek<\/a>. The measure comes at a time when many countries are considering moving to four days of work per week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The law applies mainly to workers in certain industrial or manufacturing sectors, or to those who work in a business that operates continuous shifts 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The Greek government has sought to downplay the measure, but many in labor unions and on the left are livid. Syriza, the leftist opposition party, called the legislation \u201ca return to working conditions of the 19th century.\u201d Greece already has the longest-average workweek in the E.U.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-55bd377a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">MORE TOP NEWS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Michael Sarnoski, the director of \u201cA Quiet Place: Day One,\u201d wanted the main character to have a service animal. But he didn\u2019t think a barking dog would survive long in a film about predatory aliens that hunt by sound. \u201c<a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/04\/movies\/quiet-place-day-one-cat.html\" title=\"\">I figured a cat would have a shot<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Enter Schnitzel, who played a cat that takes on the end of the world.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-286d948a\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">CONVERSATION STARTERS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"css-1le37cb ez3869y0\">\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">What is a sun dress? <\/strong><a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2024\/07\/03\/style\/sundress-quiz-summer-dress.html\" title=\"\">Take our quiz<\/a> on what makes a summer wardrobe essential.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201cThe Boy\u2019s Word\u201d:<\/strong> Russians can\u2019t stop watching this <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/03\/magazine\/the-boys-word-russians.html\" title=\"\">nihilistic TV show<\/a> about street gangs in the last years of the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"css-1i3ul0c eoqvrfo0\">\n<p class=\"css-1il0jfh evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">Legal weed: <\/strong>New York tried to treat an addictive substance just like any other product. <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/07\/03\/magazine\/marijuana-legalization-new-york.html\" title=\"\">Here\u2019s what went wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"css-1uuxri4 e1gnsphs0\" id=\"link-61b76e56\"><span><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">ARTS AND IDEAS <\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-42aed432\">Off Canada\u2019s coast, a big shift in power<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Haida people have lived for thousands of years on Haida Gwaii, a remote archipelago off Canada\u2019s western coast. 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An exit poll conducted for the BBC and two other broadcasters predicted that Labour won 410 seats to the Tories\u2019 131 in the 650-member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2024\/07\/04\/multimedia\/05ambriefing-asia-nl-uk\/05ambriefing-asia-nl-uk-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,50,10057,843,61705,503,1460],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87823"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87825,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87823\/revisions\/87825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}