The cat is Larry the cat, chief mouser of 10 Downing Street, he’s the real UK leader, Sir Keir Starmer will be the 6th PM to server under him

One reason Americans mostly missed the UK general election is that the entire campaign only lasts six weeks and the new government takes over just 12 hours after polls close. In the US, campaigns last for ever, cost billions of dollars, and there's 10 weeks between polling day and taking office.

Also the handover of power was peaceful and extremely respectful

Also the reason why you may not have previously heard of Keir Starmer is he's a very level headed politician. He doesn't do or say anything insanely outlandish. Some people say he's a bit boring, but after the last 14 years of Conservative rule, boring and stable is welcome

"I'm very distracted by the cat" We all are, don't worry. The one point of calm and consistency in British politics in recent years, that is No. 10's "Chief Mouser" Larry the Cat, who is something of a British political hero.

Wait 'til he hears about The Monster Raving Looney Party 😂

So we voted on Thursday and by Friday lunchtime our new prime minister was in place, and today ( Sunday) him and his family are moving in to number 10 This is British efficiency at its best. The polls closed at 10 p.m and the first results were in between 11 and 1130

Gotta love the visual pun at 16:52. "Assemble his first cabinet" while showing a man looking at instructions for an IKEA cabinet.

Nice to see Americans realising how closed in their media keeps them

I love how 95% of the comments are about Larry

Some context for you. Conservatives: Right-leaning party Labour: Left-leaning party Liberal Democrats: Centrist party Green: the environmentalists party Reform: basically the former BREXIT party, rather right wing party. SNP: short for Scotish National Party. A left-leaning nationalist party. Recent scandle involved the former head of the party and her husband resigning after they seem to have embezzled the money their party received through donations. Jeremy Corbyn was the leader of the Labour Party during BREXIT and was head of the Labour Party after it lost a large number of seats to the Conservatives from areas in the north known as the "red belt", regions that have always voted labour. Under his leadership there were also large concerns about a building anti-semite movement in the labour party. Further, Jeremy Corbyn was a very left wing labour leader, the new labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is considered to be a much more centrist (some say right leaning) leader. Now, we technically don't vote for the prime minister or our country's leader in the UK. Our country's leader is the monarch, King Charles the Third. We technically vote for who we want to represent the needs of our local area in parliment, AKA we choose an MP (Member of Parliment). When those votes have been cast, the Monarch invites the Member of Parliment with the most backing from the House of Commons to form a government. With the advent of political parties, that generally means that the Monarch invites the Member of Parliment who is the leader of the party with the most seats, to form a government in His name. It is conceivable however that the head of the winning party, may not have won their election and therefore not become a Member of Parliment, just being leader of the winning party does not cause you to automatically become prime minister. That is technically not in the control of the British public. Rishi Sunak is not required to step down as leader of the conservative party, however it is generally the done thing for a defeated prime minister to step down as their party's leadership as evidently their leadership did not inspire enough confidence in the public to win. A conservative party leadership election is only done by those who are members of the conservative party, it is not offered to the public to choose.

The UK is somewhat of a two party system in that Labour and Conservatives are the largest parties and so tend to have a greater reach and influence in elections. A lot of tactical voting was done this election to vote out the Conservatives, which is why Labour saw such a large increase in seats. Liberal Democrats prioritised seats over votes this election, focussing their efforts in certain constituencies rather than the UK as a whole - this is how they gained more seats than the new party: Reform, despite having less overall votes, also taking many of the votes from those who wanted the Conservatives out but didn't want Labour in. The SNP is the Scottish National Party, they are also the main independence party in Scotland, they tend to win in most places in Scotland for both the Holyrood Elections (Scottish Parliament Elections) and General Elections (UK Parliament), however, following some rather notable legal issues, change of party Leader (Scotland's First Minister) and the tactical voting to vote out the Conservatives, they lost a number of seats to Labour.

It’s great to see an American wanting to learn what’s going on outside the US. If you keep at this, you’ll eventually be the most well-informed young man in the US!

News in the UK also has plenty of coverage of the US election and elections round Europe, South Africa and India. Far more international politics is reported than in the US. Currently France is also in the midst of an election.

Sir Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister. He is criticised for not being charismatic enough, but charisma gave us the Johnson debacle, so good. He is also not a career politician, but was a barrister (senior lawyer) specialising in human rights, and then became the head of the Crown Prosecution Service and Director of Public Prosecutions, pretty much the senior lawyer in the land. This was why he got a knighthood. He actually has real world experience.

American living in the UK here... New Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer, is a former head prosecutor. The first thing to understand is that the UK votes for party not people. Whichever party gets the most votes, their leader becomes Prime minister. The Labour Party is basically the Democrats and the Tories/Conservatives the Republicans. The Green and Liberal Democrats are more progressive than Labour. The SMP is/was the major Scottish party. The Reform Party is basically the MAGA/Trump party. Jeremy Corbyn used to be the leader of the Labour Party but was kicked out for antisemitism among other things. Nigel Farage is very Trump-like, but smarter. Also, the outgoing Prime minister had to go to the King to resign, and the new PM had ask the King permission to form a government. Its a symbolic gesture.

I think the speed of the process would shock you. The former PM, Rishi Sunak, called general election on 22nd May this year. The election was on 4th July, & Sir Keir Starmer (he was knighted by the Queen in 2014 for services to law & criminal justice as he was a lawyer & Director of Public Prosecution) met the king on the morning of 5th July once it was announced he had won. Later that day, he formed his cabinet & gave his first speech as PM. He's already doing the job. We have 2 types of elections: general & local. Local elections is when we chose who we want to run our councils, the people responsible for the running of everyday life in our towns & cities. Sometimes, in a few large cities there are elections for mayor as well. For the general election, this is to decide the government of the entire country. We vote for our MP (Member of Parlaiment), the person our voting district sends to Westminster. These MPs can belong to one of the main parties, the smaller ones or they can be independent. Whichever party has the largest number of MPS elected forms the government & their leader becomes PM. We do not vote directly for the PM. Here are some of the main groups: Labour - traditionally the left wing, socialist party, but Starmer has moved it more to centre-left. The previous leaader of the Labour Party was Jeremy Corbyn who was very left wing &, under him, Labour suffered a major defeat. Conservative (Tory) - usually a centre-right party, but it has steadily lurched further to the right over the past few years. Liberal Democrats (Lib Dems) - centrist to centre-left party which is pro-European. They lost a lot of supporter under the leadership of Nick Clegg who joinged a coalition government with the Tories in 2010, when he agreed to turn his back on the promises he'd made in their manifesto/ The current leader, Ed Davey, is slowly clawing back support for them. Green Party - a green left wing party, which has never been very successful in the UK. Reform UK - the party furthest on the right wing, with Eurosceptic & right-wing populist policies. Plaid Cymru - a left leaning party which only works in Wales. It's name is Welsh for the Party of Wales, & wants independence for Wales & a seat for Wales at the United Nations. Scottish National Party (SNP) - another indepence group, this time for Scotland, obviously! lol They usuall have progressive social policies. There are several parties which only exist in Northern Ireland: Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) - a right-wong Protestant party which often supports the Tories. It wants Northern Ireland to remain part of the UK & is a nationalist, right-wing populist & Eurosceptic party. The DUP are anti-LGBTQ+ rights & don't want legalised abortion except in very rare circumstances. Alliance Party of Northern Ireland - a centre to centre-left party which is nonsectarian (religions, either Catholic or Protestant, are a huge part of life Northern Ireland & the issues of being in the UK or Ireland). Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) - another centre-right Protestant party which is allied to the Tories because it wants Northern Ireland to remain in the UK. Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) - a left-wing social democractic party which wants Northern Ireland to be part of the republic of Ireland, not the UK. Sinn Féin - a centre-left to left wing party which is for Catholics Irish which wants Norhtern Ireland to leave the UK & join the Republic of Ireland. It favours democratic socialism & grew as the pioliotical arm of the IRA. It was formed in the early 20th century to fight for the independence of Ireland from the UK. Sinn Féin have campaigned for LGBTQ+ & women's rights, including legalising abortion.

I'm a British citizen and the main reason why there was hardly any news about it in America is because the voting happened on the 4th of July which is an national holiday in the states

Because UK and Australia do not treat elections as a circus and accept the election verdict as true. I find the US people are very insular. At least this person is interested in the rest of the world. 😊

When I was in the US, I was struck by how barely anything outside the 4 walls of the US was reported in news media.

Larry the cat, lives in No.10 Downing Street full time, regardless of which Prime Minister moves in. He has his own staff looking after him. 🐱

"Who is this in the middle?" Sometimes, in his innocence, Tyler hits on the very question that everyone is asking.

"I had no idea" - you really need to make that your channel motto.

Still find it mad how long it takes between the US election results and the new President being appointed. In the UK it’s literally the next morning after the voting closes. Swift and civilised transition of power

That cat is Larry. His official title is "Chief Mouser To The Cabinet Office". He has free range of Downing Street.

We don't elect the Prime Minister directly.

Yes we have a new Prime Minister and I’m thrilled! Keir Starmer and Labour are what we needed for so long

I would not expect any US person to be that interested in our internal politics but you should be aware that Nigel Farage (leader of the Reform Party a close ally and supporter of Donald Trump and has spoken at this rallies.

A Seat is a constituency. If you win the constituency, you take that Seat in the Commons.

The population of the UK do not vote for the Prime Minister at all, that is voted on purely by the governing party. A general election is pretty much like voting for congressmen, we have 650 seats that each represent an area of the country with roughly 60-80k voters in each. Whichever party gets at least 325 MPs takes governing control of the country. Elections can occur at any time the Prime Minister wishes, so long as it is no longer than 5 years since the last one (the shortest ever period was just 3 weeks)

Its Sir Keir Starmer he is the former Director of Public prosecutions for England he was a very senior lawyer

The very different thing that you will notice is the the way the two leaders dealt with the result and the their opponents .Rishi for his for his dedication to the position. Sunak the outgoing PM congratulated the incoming PM Kier Starmer and Kier Starmer thanked the outgoing Rishi Sunak for his dedication in the role. With a few sad exceptions , British manners still exist in our political system .

SNP is the Scottish National Party

Just wait till he learns about Count Binface.

650 MPs in Parliament, the party that has 326 wins. That means they get to be the Government, the party selects a Prime Minister. This happens the morning after the election, none of this “give the loser 2 months to try and stage a coup” rubbish.

The fall of the Conservative Party was inevitable in this election, Labour were inevitably going to win. The Conservatives had garnered a large selection of something called "The Red Wall" up in the north of England. These were safe Labour seats until 2019 when they bestowed their trust in Boris Johnson to push through the Brexit process. Boris, in turn, apparently delivered Brexit by leaving the EU, but chose not to capitalise on doing so. He decided that corruption and cronyism was a good idea, and proceeded to enforce draconian laws through the whole Covid debacle (which he claims were advice guidelines - yet people were arrested for breaking the advice) Before eventually stepping down when he realised that whatever reputation he had was squandered and spoilt. The Conservative Party then held a members vote to select the next leader, the final two between Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak. Truss won the vote and was installed as PM, her and her new chancellor (Kwasi Kwarteng) came up with a mini budget for the UK, and the pound immediately dropped rapidly in value. It's pretty believed by many that the banks and many Conservative members orchestrated this crash in a coup, not only for financial gain, but because "the wrong leader was chosen" After 49 days, Truss stepped down, and gave space for the loser Rishi Sunak to be selected (not by the members this time - those pesky plebs) but by his fellow Conservative MPs. Rishi was a loser from the start, he had derailed Boris' leadership during the Covid era, and completely ruined the economy with his frivolous money printing via the Furlough scheme. The left didn't want him, the right didn't want him, nobody wanted him. Now we have the Labour Party, headed by Sir Kier Starmer, or Flip Flop as he's known in other circles. He is playing more to the centre left of politics in the UK, after removing representatives from when Jeremy Corbyn was leader in 2019. If he was a colour, he would be beige Whilst Starmer is liked by some (and only some) on the left, the primary reason for the massive swing was people "getting the tories out" in protest Whilst the result seems massive, the vote share says otherwise, there weren't massive majorities in a lot of constituencies, and my prediction is that people will quickly start rejecting their local MPs in shows of no confidence, thus triggering numerous by elections. In my honest opinion too, I think Labour know this large majority is actually quite hollow, and will have to try to really garner people to their cause if they wish to stay with such a large majority. ps. Larry is a good cat, he is the best mouser.

I'm really not surprised that Americans didn't know the UK had a General Election this week and I'm also presuming they are unaware that there's also one going on in France.

BTW the French are having a general election today and they will have a new government tomorrow.

In UK politics: Labour focuses on social justice, Lib Dems on civil liberties and the EU, Conservatives on free markets and traditional values, Greens on the environment and equity, SNP on Scottish independence, and Reform on national sovereignty and reducing immigration.

All Europeans know practically everything about America but most Americans know practically nothing about Europe,,,,the education system in America must be completely revamped to properly educate the future generations,

No arguing over ballots and counting and having the lawyers get involved and the old PM congratulated the new PM around 4am ish then at 11AM same day left with new one in place 15 minutes later (Not months like the USA)..

We don't treat our elections like entertainment. So it is about politics, not personalirites. The US elections give me Hunger Games vibes. I hope we never get like that.

As a brit, here are the main parties explained- and yes, I am biased: Conservatives- Rishi Sunak, they were in charge for fourteen years, and are very right winged. Labour (they won)- Keir Starmer, they call themselves the party for the workers, which they aren't really anymore. Liberal Democrats- Ed Davey, they are quite left winged, and my favourite. Reform- Nigel Farage, they are the most right winged, and were big supporters of Brexit. Green- tbh I forgot their leaders name, like most PEOPLE. They mostly care about the environment. SNP- dunno the leaders name, they are Scottish, and basically only won things in Scotland. Nobody really cares about them in England.

It's great to see how genuinely interested you are in the UK political sphere. Yeah, this election was a pretty wild one. Basically the entire country was fed up with the Conservative party who has been in power for the last 14 years, and the election basically reinforced their image of being useless because their only strategy was to yell publicly about how Labour were going to be and many have compared it to the strategies of an abusive spouse. The public knew that the Conservatives were going to lose, so much so that all the other parties aside from the main two literally stated in their own campaigns that Labour was going to win whenever they were on TV. Oddly enough there was a campaign scandal somewhat involving the USA as the then Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, was attending a D-Day memorial event with the American President, the French President, and the German Chancellor. Yet Rishi Sunak decided to leave the event early and it was revealed that he didn't even want to go at all, so in the press photos with the four leaders, the UK had to substitute another MP who was a former Prime Minister in 2010, David Cameron. As the Tories main campaign pledge was to bring back national service, which when last introduced was essentially military conscription and many of the men who died and fought on D-Day were there as a part of national service, it caused an immense amount of backlash. So it's a bit odd that it never made even a passing mention in the US media as it was seen as disrespecting the army, and I know the army is very important in America.

The cat is called Larry and he's "Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office" (yes that is an official title that Larry holds). He's the residential cat of 10 Downing Street and doesn’t belong to any PM. There's been a tradition of resident cats in 10 Downing Street going back to at least 1929 but some believe the tradition of a government owned cat goes back to the 16th century. Other notable Downing Street cats include Rufus, Peter, Nelson, Wilberforce, and Humphrey. Larry has been the resident cat since 2011 and has become somewhat of a national treasure.

Big new in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the Tory’s were kicked out. So now Wales as Tory free 😊

Welcome to the world outside of the USA Tyler! We get a lot of news coverage of the upcoming presidential election. Well done for educating yourself on what goes on in the wider world.

"Kier Stahmo? I gotta try to remember that" No, you don't.

Every 5 years the UK is split into 650 pieces called constituencies each of these elects one person call a Member of Parliament(MP) to represent them, we use a system called First Past the Post, which basically means most votes wins, it doesn't matter what percentage of the vote you get, as long as you get more votes than every other candidate you win. To win the election you need a majority of seats that are available and to get that majority you need 326 seats(though in practical terms this number is less due to the Sinn Féin Irish republicans not taking their seats to to MP's needing to swear an oath of loyalty to the monarch and they hate the monarchy and the Speaker of the House of Commons and their deputies not voting). It is possible as was shown in this election for a party to go from having a majority, to getting their ass kicked. SNP stands for Scottish National Party, their main aim is to achieve independence for Scotland. A Conservative defeat was always expected it was just a matter of how big it'd be, Rishi Sunak, the Conservative leader resigned as PM(he had no choice on this) as well as leader of the Conservative Party(He could have chose to stay on but he chose to resign), I don't see Nigel Farage jumping ship from Reform UK to the Conservatives, for a multitude of reasons.

Larry the cat is the one constant in our politics. He is world famous right?

The labour party is socialist/communist atm. They won through default - because the Conservatives messed up for 14 years - we are an angry country. The major issue is immigration - which was 1.2m ppl last year. They are consuming vast taxpayer money for accommodation in high end hotels throughout the uk with food board, money, phones and bikes for 2 years - whilst being processed - are seldom refused, are of a very opposing culture, low ability no English. Demonstrating high crime rates esp.against women. Including the 'r' word and ac id attacks. Labour are so NOT popular either + will be worse - we need proportionsl representation to promeote the public opinion appropriately. 'Re form' is a new party- and most promising esp if we can achieve p/r. 🙂

You have not heard of the Reform UK Party as they have only been up and running for a month. The fact that they got 4 million votes and only 5 (up from 4 after a recount) MPs, and the LibDems got fewer votes and *71* MPs indicates the necessity of replacing our first-past-the-post system with proportional representation.

Jeremy Corbyn used to be Labour Party leader and was a genuine left winger. He was expelled when Starmer took over, so decided to stand as an Independent.

Yeah, Kier Starmer is the Labour party leader and now the PM. Conservatives (Tory) are a broad church right wing party. Labour are a broad church left wing party that shifts centre left to middle left (socialist). In terms of PMs, we've gone from billionaire hedgefund managers as PM to a high profile human rights lawyer as PM. Our deputy PM is now a working class woman who came from poverty, cared for her mum and came out of school with nothing. This should lead to a big change in tone in UK politics.

In the UK, the entire country is broken up into constituencies consisting of about 70k people. When we have a general election, everyone eligible person in each constituency can vote on who will represent them in parliament (the person elected is called a Member of Parliament, aka an MP), and each MP represents a specific political party. Some parties such as the Labour Party, the Conservative Party (aka Tory party), and the Liberal Democrats (aka Lib Dems) will have a candidate is pretty much every constituency, but we also have parties that are specific to a particular country, such as the Scottish National Party (SNP), Plaid Cymru (which is Welsh for The Party of Wales), and Sinn Féin (Irish for Ourselves). Each of those parties only field candidates in their own countries as they want independence from the UK. We also have a number of smaller parties such as the Green Party (a left of centre party with a focus on the environment), the Monster Raving Loney Party (I haven't even made that one up!) plus a few independent candidates such as the former Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn (who was kicked out of the party) and my personal favourite independent candidate, Count Binface (Google him, you won't regret it, and yes, a small number of people vote for him. Once all the votes are counted in a constituency, whoever has the greatest number of votes, gets to be an MP, and which ever party has the greatest number of MPs gets to form the government, which means we don't directly vote for a Prime Minister (PM). As we don't have a written constitution, there are no set rules as to which MP in that party will be PM. However, traditionally, the leader of a party will be selected by their party to act as PM. This leads to the weird situation we've had over the past 14 years, where we've had 5 different PMs, 4 of whom stepped down as PM during their term, and the party voted on who their new leader, and therefore PM would be.

Honestly as a Brit and turning the news on and EVERY time they were talking about the election it drove me nuts

The cat lives in the primisters house. He has seen 5 prime ministers come and go.

The UK General Election is ONLY about electing MPs - our representatives in Parliament - and not about the Prime Minister, though we have a good idea who will be PM if a particular party wins.

If you want to learn about all the manifestos of the various parties to learn what they’re like, Evan Edinger recently did a video going over the 5 main parties in England and the important points in them. I’d recommend giving it a watch.

How insular is the US ? There is a huge world of around 190 other countries beyond your borders who continue life without caring if Murica is watching. It would seem Americans think the world is only within their borders & are quite surprised to be shown the truth. In Britain you vote for the party,not the leader.The leader of the winning party becomes PM. In this case the ex-PM has quit as party leader which causes an election WITHIN the party,NOT the public. The new PM is STARMER.

You wont hear Keir STARMO as the new PM, because it's Keir STARMER!!!!

The cat is called Larry and is the one that is really running the country!

The UK election actually works like the election for the House of Representatives in the US - whoever gets the most votes, will get the seat.

It depends on your choice of medium. The New York Times covers foreign politics including the election fairly well. Also, don't underestimate British ignorance of their own politics - the British tennis player Emma Raducanu didn't know there was an election on and I am not sure what proportion of the population could name the current prime minister (perhaps understandable considering we have had five prime ministers in the last five years).

Here in the Netherlands we have around 30 parties. Outside the US, the US is regarded as almost non democratic. It is a corporate state, with two ultra right wing parties. But, because of the First Past the Post electoral System, the UK does NOT have representation in any thing like it should have. Look to countries like the Netherlands for examples of proper democracies.

yes and its big but so is what's going on in France too.

It’s great that the UK has so many parties, but always remember it’s way less than the number Boris Johnson had during lockdown.

Rishi Sunak, who WAS the Prime Minister, now automatically becomes the Leader of The Opposition party - but his position has become untenable in the light of their ignominious defeat, and so is expected to resign as Tory leader (and, in fact, has done so by now). He will stay on as 'figurehead' leader until the Tory party can elect themselves a new party leader. That is an internal process within the Tory party itself.

Everyone gets distracted by that cat. 😆🤣

The effect of the UK on the US is a heck of a lot less than the effect of the US on the UK.

Something to help: The Prime Minister is an individual who can command a majority in The House of Commons. This is typically the party leader of the party with the most consituancy seats. However the definition is most applicable when that authority has been lost, as was the case when Boris Johnson was removed for being an inveterate liar covering up a sex scandal, or serial ineptitude with the economy in the case of Liz Truss. In both cases the political outcry saw them stripped of the title of Primeminister because there were enough rebels in the party willing to vote against the governments motions that that the business of government could not continue. In both cases the matter was resolved not by a fresh national general election, which was arguablely warranted, but by members of The Conservative Party electing a new leader who defacto then became Primeminister. The general election in June 2024 was for the entire House of Commons and in this instance the nation handed the majority of seats (MPs) to Labour and it's leader Kier Starmer who per force is now Primeminister until a new general election is called or until he can no longer command a majority in the House.

Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader before Keir Starmer. He has been the Labour MP for Islington North for over 40 years. He is a socialist and when he became leader, Labour’s membership increased significantly. However there was a huge smear campaign put on him throughout his time as leader of the opposition mainly surrounding anti-semitism within the Labour Party. Really though, it was that the media couldn’t stand the thought of a socialist getting into power. The smear campaign was so successful that when it came to the 2019 election Labour lost 60 seats and a huge chunk of the so-called “red-wall” in the North of England. he was then forced to resign and Labour re-invented itself again as a much more centrist party. Not what the membership really wanted and their numbers dwindled. However much more widely electable.

"Sir Keir Starmo..." - Dear God America!

The Cat is Larry. He’s number 10’s chief mouser. He is always out on the street looking cute.

I live in North Herefordshire and voted Green to get a Conservative MP out. It worked and I'm now proud to have a Green MP.

It's not that the electorate loves Labour. It's that the Tories lost all credibility in England (Boris Johnson mainly to blame), and the SNP has lost all credibility in Scotland, due to corruption, total incompetence, pending trials for corporate manslaughter - when, oh Lord, when? - and an insane fanatical devotion to Queer Theory and its force-feeding to nursery-school children. (It's worse in Wales.) Devolution for Scotland and Wales - Tony Blair's fault - has been a DISASTER for the people of these countries.

Like most Americans he 'doesn't understand anything'! True.

There are no conservative mp s in wales now

good on you for trying to learn about this! :)

Im just a typical Average Englishman reacting to an American who’s reacting to British day to day life . ‘’Good job ,keep it up ⬆️’’

Chief Mouser is an actual cabinet position, Larry is higher up the political pecking order than all but a couple of dozen MPs.

Larry's food requirements etc are provided by his staff from "The Kitty" as he does not belong to any particular person in No.10, Downing Street, London, W1A 1AA * (*check?) because Larry is a Civil Servant and receives a stipend in his own right, as befitting his position and job title: Chief Mouser, and he also 'meets 'n' greets official visitors' to No.10, and 'checks the furniture for comfort'.

USA media is THE most narrowly focused, ill informed and biased media circus outside of those countries who only have state controlled media. The entire concept of American FREEDUMB comes crashing to nothingness on this edifice. Some years ago when I used to travel a lot for work I used to read the Financial Times for my news source, because it was available extremely widely and, being a financial publication, it tended to report news in a relatively politically unbiased way.

We don't elect the prime minister exactly. We vote for the party we want and the winning party leader becomes PM. Labour party is the party that's more for the regular working class people. Conservative party has traditionally been the more posh party leaning towards privatisation of essential services

Voting on the Thursday, new government on the Friday, all start work on the Monday. There is no transition.

Also the conservative government had it coming

Hi Tyler, I'm from the UK. If you're interested, heres an overview of our parties for you, in order of how many seats they won this year: Labour - traditionally Labour were a social democratic party. They first got a majority government just after world war 2 because people wanted to rebuild. They made things like the NHS, and cared about social housing and the welfare state. When they won in 97 though, they won by moving to be more central, less on the left, and this new Labour government is closer to that style of Labour. Conservative - the tories are traditionally centre right, and are actually the most successful political party in history. They were always seen as "the sensible ones". They wanted small government and responsible money spending. They have been in power for the last 14 years, though, and in that time they have had that many scandals that they arent seen how they traditionally used to be, and have left the centre ground and have been steadily moving over to the right. These scandals are essentially why they've been voted out in such a massive way. Many people say that this election wasn't to get Labour in, it was to get the tories out. Labour are the next biggest party, so they got voted in. The Liberal Democrats are on the left, but not in the social democracy way that Labour are. A long time ago they used to be the 2nd biggest party, but they've been 3rd and 4th for a while. You can probably compare them to the American democrats, just without the americanisms. They tend to push better healthcare and things like marijuana legalisation. Then theres the SNP. SNP stands for Scottish National Party. They are on the left, but the main thing they stand on is wanting scottish independence from the UK. Their last leader won pretty much all of Scotland last time, and because of that they really pushed hard for a Scottish independence referendum. But, this time around, that leader got found out to be doing some dodgy stuff with money, and got kicked out, meaning they lost loads of their seats. After this there are a lot of little parties. Reform that won 5 in the end are a far right party, and theyre the reason the tories have been leaning further right. Their leader is nigel farage, who is basically the reason that brexit happened. Reform have been getting a fair bit of the voteshare, and the tories want some of it so are trying to appeal to the reform voter base. Reform pretty much only talk about immigration. They've been caught out being outright racist a lot, and have had ties with the BNP, who are outwardly fascist. Then theres the green party. The greens got 4 seats, and are the most left leaning party in the government. They want action on climate change, more renewable energy, higher taxes for the richest people. After that its a lot of different local parties. As a few examples, plaid cymru is a local left leaning welsh party. They are a bit like labour and the lib dems, but they want those things spoken out for specifically for where they are from, in wales. Northern Ireland then is a whole other kettle of fish. Its got its own parties that arent usually covered much in the UK elections because the parties in Britain dont stand there because of the troubles. It usually gets separated by parties that want to stay in the UK, and parties that want to leave the UK and unify with the republic of Ireland. But its very complicated and the roots of it all run deep so i wont try and summarise it in a simple way. Then finally theres all the independents. The independents dont belong to any party and run just as themselves for the area that they are in. Many of them this time around have been protest votes for people that would have voted Labour but didn't because during the election, Labour had confusing messaging on the Israel-palestine conflict, and came across as if they didn't want Palestine to be it's own state. Many disagreed with that stance and voted independents as a protest. The final noteworthy independent was Jeremy Corbyn who was mentioned in this video. He used to be the leader of labour, but was kicked out of it by the current leader. Corbyn lost the election last time around, and it was likely because he was trying to bring labour back to its traditional social democracy roots, which many didn't want or weren't ready for. He was kicked out so that he couldn't divide the labour party from the inside, basically.

It is possible in our system for the party to win but the leader to lose his seat. Because, of course, we're ostensibly voting for individuals representing our local area - even though it's the party leader who sets the pace and tone and policy. So, in many respects, you're voting with two hats on: one, for the candidate to represent where you live; two, for the party as a whole, as represented through the media by the party leader. And since he/she is also a representative for a local area, if they don't vote for him/her, it's goodbye to that person!

American news isn’t great at showing much international stuff.

Tyler. This is how democracy works. The government of the day called the election, but they lost it by a big majority. Maybe the US should try this someday! We have more than two candidates for Prime Minister. I had nine candidates to choose from. We vote for a MP who's leader may become Prime Minister.

SNP or Scottish National Party, were the main party of Scotland for a good number of years. They introduced some pretty radical changes to Scotland, including free university tuition, free drug prescriptions, and free elderly bus travel. But their biggest target was to make Scotland an independent nation, since the UK still held quite a large sway over things like positioning nuclear missiles on their border and testing controversial laws like the smoking in public places ban or poll tax. A referendum was held in 2014, but the public decided to remain. The first minister at the time quit and was replaced with a new one. After that it was a slow decline for the SNP, as public services got worse and there was a lot of corruption going on under the table. It came to a head when they were voted out and replaced by Labour. Time will tell if Labour can do a better job at running Scotland than SNP were for the last ten or so years.

Isn't it amazing most countries in the World take about six weeks for an election campaign. The USA never seems to stop having an election campaign even though the formal part is twelve months.

The new Prime Minister is called Sir Keir Starmer.

Here's a basic breakdown of the parties: Labour (Red) - Fundamentally based around worker's rights, government regulation (and public ownership) of essential services like water and electricity. Strongly Left/socialist leaning. Conservatives (Blue, A.K.A. "Tories") - Most equivalent to US Republican party, traditionalists for the wealthy, private ownership, deregulated free market. Strongly capitalist, slightly right leaning. Liberal Democrats (Dark Yellow, A.K.A. "Lib Dems") - Liberal centrists who support federalism (Many small self-governing states under a head governing body.) Left/Socialist leaning. Scottish Nationalist Party ( Light Yellow, A.K.A. "SNP") - Scottish Independence focused socialist democrats. Centre-left. Green Party (Green) - All about environmentalism, socialism with an Eco-friendly flavour and republicanism (governance without a monarch). Strong Left. Reform (Light Blue) - Want to blame everything on immigration. Used to be Brexit/UK Independence Party (UKIP). Strongly Racist.

You’re unlikely to read this but: Keir Starmer is the new Prime Minister and Labour leader. Jeremy Corbyn was the Labour leader at the last election, was then kicked out of the party by Starmer and then ran as an independent for his seat. Our system doesn’t work all that differently from yours. Your leaders win states based on county votes. Our Prime Minister is picked based on how many locals like the local politicians. So, imagine you were voting for a senator locally, then whichever party had the highest number of local senators win, won the election and became president. Reform UK are a relabelled UKIP/ Brexit party that is commonly associated with far-right and bigoted views. Much like we are seeing in America, the rise of the far-right in the U.K. and Europe is becoming an issue. Tonight, the French have (somewhat shockingly according to experts) defeated their far-right party in their own general election. The progressive left have won in both the UK and France within a few days of each other. Now over to you lot to sort your act out too!

I can explain the new UK Labour Government easily: The highest number of state-educated Ministers (as opposed to private). The highest number of female and minority Ministers and MPs. The most truly representative Parliament in decades. Parties: - Labour: Centre to Centre-Left to Left. - Conservative: Centre-Right to Far Right. - Reform: Far Right to Extremist Far Right - Liberal Democrats: Centre to Centre-Left. - Scottish National Party: Left to Centre-Left, plus Scottish Nationalist. - Green: Well, Green. And Centre-Left. - Plaid Cymru : Centre-Left plus Welsh Nationalist. - DUP: Right Wing Irish Unionists. - Sinn Fein: Left, plus Irish Nationalist.

Shout out to Larry the Cat!

Great video! So the main parties mentioned were Conservative (centre right) Liberal Democrats (centre) Labour (Centre left) Green (left wing environmental) and reform (populist right, think Trump) UK is split into 650 constituencies (seats), each one elects an MP to represent them and the party with the most MPs forms the new government, with their leader becoming PM. once a party has 326 seats, they have won as they have over half the seats in Parliament (a working majority) so can pass legislation if all MPs of that party vote the same way, even if all the other MPs voted against it. Party leaders are picked by party members and each has their own method of doing this. If a party changes leader while in government that new leader becomes PM and doesn't have to call an election until one is due but they can if they want. It's very rare for a party to change leader while in office but it happened twice during the last parliament as internal divisions made the Conservative party very unstable. Check out Liz Truss vs a Lettuce, pretty much sums it up

In the UK general election there is only one thing on the ballot: who will represent the constituency (a local area containing about 50-70000 people) in the House of Commons. The elected person become a Member of Parliament (MP) Political parties are made up of MPs and exist to unite people with common beliefs and causes into an effective political force. the Prime Minister (PM) is the person who "commands the confidence of the house of commons" which means the person with the most MPs supporting them. the major Parties in the UK are: Labour -Left leaning or Centrist The Conservative and Unionist Party (Tories) - Right wing The Liberal Democrats - Centrist Reform/Brexit/UKIP - Right wing to far right Greens - Left wing The Scottish National Party - left leaning, Scottish nationalist Plaid Cymry - left leaning, Welsh nationalist DUP/UUP/TUV - Irish Unionist (remain part of the united kingdom) parties Sinn Fein - Irish Republicans (want to leave the UK and join with Ireland) famous for not taking seat in UK parliament in protest of british rule. Alliance - neutral irish party

Opinion polls were showing that the Conservative Party were likely to lose by a landslide, so most of us weren't surprised. The Conservatives took over from Labour in 2010 have been on a campaign of cutting social security and other benefits, freezing pay in the public sector, did nothing on building affordable housing, and refused to invest in the National Health service ( NHS ) and education. They then encouraged people to vote to leave the EU and we'd all be better off ( we weren't all duped ) we then got poorer . While the Conservatives gave tax cuts to their billionaire friends and allowed private water companies to dump untreated sewage in our rivers because we were outside the EU and didn't have to comply with EU standards and people eventually had , had enough The SNP is the Scottish National Party , its centre left but its main aim is Scottish Independence Reform uk was set up by Nigel Farage who's a good friend of Donald Trump, he also sold people the lie of Brexit and wants to finish off the NHS so we all have to pay Private health insurance and then get left to die when the insurance runs out People in the UK have tended to vote either Labour or Tory but this election was a huge watershed as this was the first time since WW2 that both parties secured less than 60% of the vote combined I'm one of the people who decided not to vote either Tory or Labour. I voted Green because I personally think they're the only party left in the UK with any integrity