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The red "landslide" in the UK general election held on Thursday 4 July was no surprise. Keir Starmer's center-left Labour Party emerged victorious with 411 seats (33.8 percent of the vote), against 121 seats (23.7 percent) for the outgoing right-wing Conservative Party.
It was a resounding defeat for former Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had led a chaotic mandate and could only watch helplessly as his party lost no fewer than 244 seats compared to 2019. Thus ends the reign of the British right, after 14 years in power, marked by Brexit, a succession of political scandals, and a deep social and economic crisis.
Labour now faces the difficult task of turning around the UK's socio-economic situation. Their program includes, among other things, reviving growth, reforming education, nationalising the railways and putting the public health system back on its feet... Nothing short of "repairing" the damage caused by their predecessors.
A conversation with investigative reporters Stefano Valentino and Giorgio Michalopoulos, who have dissected the dark underbelly of green finance for Voxeurop and won several awards for their work.
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