Premiership of Keir Starmer

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Keir Starmer's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 5 July 2024 when he accepted an invitation from King Charles III to form a government, succeeding Rishi Sunak of the Conservative Party, and concluded upon his resignation on 20 July 2026. As prime minister Starmer also served simultaneously as First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Minister for the Union. Starmer, who had been Leader of the Labour Party since 2020, was appointed prime minister after his party had won a landslide victory at the 2024 general election, ending fourteen years of Conservative governance, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first Labour leader to win a general election since Tony Blair in 2005, but with the smallest share of the electoral vote of any majority government since record-keeping of the popular vote began in 1830. Under Starmer's premiership, the government ended certain Winter Fuel Payments for around 10 million people...

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