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Keir Starmer is the UK’s new prime minister after his Labour Party won Thursday’s election.
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He’s had help opening up about his personal story from an unlikely source: Barack Obama.
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The relationship could continue after Starmer takes office.
Britons have voted and the UK is posed up for a radical change in leadership.
The left-wing Labour Party has won more than 400 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, which means its leader, Keir Starmer, is to be prime minister and 14 years of Conservative Party rule is over.
Starmer declared, “Change begins now,” at a rally early Friday morning as results poured in, but his victory came despite the fact he’s often described as lacking charisma.
Jill Rutter, a research fellow at the London research…