LONDON: With Labor losing control of 36 councils and 1,436 members in local elections and finishing second with British Reform in the Scottish Parliament, embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer has brought back former Labor Prime Minister Gordon Brown and appointed him as his “special envoy on global finance and cooperation” to “work with our international allies to build a stronger Britain”.Conservative MP Andrew Griffiths tweeted a mocking picture of Brown on a DeLorean outside No. 10 with the caption “Back to the past”, saying: “With the Hail Marys gone, bringing back Labour’s biggest loser, who sold £40bn of British gold before leading Labor to general election defeat, may need a bit of work…”So far, 30 Labor MPs, including Barry Gardiner and Nadia Whitomi, have called on Starmer to resign.
But 80 Labor MPs will need the support of anyone who wants to challenge his leadership under party rules. On television, voters said they were tired of rising costs of living, rising taxes, shrinking living standards and illegal immigration.Reform UK by Saturday night, with only four assemblies left to declare, had 1,449 members and 14 assemblies, and the Green Party had 397 members and four assemblies. “Britain’s working and lower-middle-class communities” see Labor “run by and for progressive elites…,” Labor MP Dan Carden wrote on X.
Rope class.Birmingham City Council went from being Labor-run to having no overall control with a full cross-party and 13 independents, most of them Muslims, winning the Gaza ticket. The coalition of independent candidates was organized by activists Ahmed Yaqoob and Shakeel Afsar. Afsar was part of the mob that descended on the Smethwick Hindu Temple in Birmingham in 2022.
