I can't speak for anyone else, but if Starmer can deliver quiet, competent, no-nonsense government within the hand that he has been dealt, then I am sold. The Tories delivered nothing but hot air, corruption, incompetence and drama. Saying that, Tony Blair falls squarely into the 'untrustworthy scumbag' category and any attempt to bring him back to frontline politics is a red line.

What struck me most was that Starmer appointed a politically neutral Attorney General whose advice would be about legality, not political advantage. No more than would be expected from an ex-DPP but reassuring that we will not be hearing any nonsense about lawbreaking in small and specific areas.

Funny how the Tories go for years with the country, and then expect Labour to turn it round in 1 weekend. It's bizarre

Just like Boris Johnson could do whatever he wanted with his massive majority, I didn't hear too many complaints from the press then..

Starmer has already indicated the type of government he's going to run. Look at his appointments, experts to roles that in the past have been political... scientific advisor, AG, prisons minister. Fills me with hope

The only downside is that over a hundred Tories were elected.

"First few days" It's barely been 48 hours. I don't recall this level of intense scrunity for the Cameron government, or any of his Tory successors.

The secretary of health did not admit the NHS was broken. 'Admit' has a sense of culpability. He was forthright in his description of the NHS. Commentators should be aware of the words they use

That press conference was such a nice change of pace. He answered questions clearly, simply and without any drama or fuss. It’s going to take time to undo the damage, but it’s a relief to see a proper professional in charge at the very least.

The Conservative Party conveniently forgot the words of one of their founders, Benjamin Disraeli. "The duty of power is the welfare of the people". How the arrogant have fallen.

The first time in 2 decades? What? Johnson's government had a massive majority, did you forget that already ... It wasn't the lack of power that was the issue, it was the lack of any moral or practical basis for whichthe power was used.

Ah yes, must be that supermajority we were all warned about. To be fair, the only way the Tories could have prevented it was to rule effectively without near constant scandals for the last 14 years, an impossible ask.

It goes without saying that Labour face a trashed country but I am genuinely optimistic and excited for the future. It’s like hope has returned at last.

I don’t agree with all his policies, but I genuinely believe he wants the best for the country and the people in it. Right now, that’s a huge improvement on what we’ve had.

The people the couldn’t be bothered to vote can’t complain.

This government will show the Tories what an utter deplorable, self-serving, entitled, morally corrupt, disgrace they are.

Never, ever let the Tories back in.

He will be great Keir Starmer he hasnt hung about with the migrant problem he has alreadt stopped the Rwanda flights Go Keir!

The full extent of Labour's support I feel is disguised by the independent and organized tactical voting operations. Lib Dems, Greens, Plaid, all also had fantastic results. That couldn't have happened without a broad political spectrum of support being willing to trust Labour with the keys to Nr.10. Alongside what would otherwise be Labour voters supporting liberal or left-wing parties so they can all rid themselves of the Tories that had blighted British politics for the last fourteen years. Up to Starmer to deliver, obviously, but I think he and his cabinet could hardly ask for better running start.

Stop for god’s sake, with Reform

Wrinkle? Does not matter. Will the media please give the government space to get on with the job in hand. We have a great opportunity for our country to recover from chronic mismanagement. Wish Labour well on this task.

When you talk about the low turnout without looking behind the headline is poor journalism. No mention of the voter id rules brought in to suppress the voter numbers, come on where is the context?

I said as long ago as 2017 that Starmer was the PM we needed. Nothing changes my view that he will be one of the truly great Prime Ministers this country has had.

Only small turnout because we were SO WEARY. We were bashed into submission without a thought how we felt. Tory Posh boys asserting cruelty and hurt in every facet of our lives. The underlying feeling is only this morning dissipating. WE HAVE BEEN SO WRONGED🥵‼️

Listen to you two, 3 days in and you say he’s got to improve things quickly after a 14 year Tory train crash - and there’s no cash.

Your Thumbnail tag line is " Keir Starmer can do what ever he wants" ... so much like Boris could with his 80 majority back in 2019 then (or ANY government in this country with a majority could do at pretty much any time) and I didn't hear people screaming that "Boris can do what ever he wants" then. The bias of the press is staggering.

Something I haven't seen/heard mentioned - let alone discussed - is the impact of the new photo ID requirement on voter turnout. How many didn't turn up because they don't have something they've never needed before - and how many turned up but were turned away?

Imagine moving every month and then finally settling into a home for at least 5-10 years. That's how I feel about this stable Labour government.

we need a better voting system when 4.5 million votes only get 5 seats and 3.2 million get 71 seats thats not democracy is it

What is fascinating is how utterly destroyed everything was thanks to the previous government. The last 14 years of Conservative rule is to politics what 2023's Velma is to the Scooby Doo franchise. We were hate watching our government collapse and with it, our economic stability, our morals, our freedoms and trust in politicians in general. I think there should be an automatic general election the moment a prime minister leaves. Be it a vote of no confidence or otherwise. If nothing else, maybe it'd stop the revolving door scenario from happening again.

That was the laborer's strategy Go after seats not vote share why are you banging on about vote share?? When they got more vote share in previous elections the lost

He's going to be a fantastic PM.

To be quite honest, all I really want is to have a government I can finally take a break from paying attention to. 14 years of constant vigililance is literally half of my entire life, and i am so drained by it.

Listening to the commentary over the last few days, can commentators stop saying that everyone is underestimating Reform? For a party that's got five whole seats, all anyone's talked about is reform.

How much of the low turnout was down to Tory voter suppression?

Labour have had at least 6 weeks' time to get everything in order to move in to Downing Street, it was a foregone conclusion even before Sunak gave the date of the election.

2011: Gove - don't listen to experts. Cummings - hired to recruit anyone other than experts.

Funny watching a Murdoch journalist and Lewis who thinks Starmer won’t last two years trying to defend their positions.

It's interesting that Starmer is saying what a huge amount of work he and his cabinet have to do. He is confident he can fix things. But, what on earth were the Conservatives doing for 14 years ?

Tories lost and the reason is simple, Human beings have a definitive breaking point, and it comes when they stand to lose those people and things dearest to them, remind me, what did the Tories do to the NHS and other related public services.

Keir Starmer has accepted more free tickets to events such as sports matches, concerts and parties than the combined total of every other Labour leader since records began in 1997, openDemocracy analysis has found. While the Labour leader spent his first year and a half in the role under lockdown, he has quickly made up for it, accepting gifts from donors including multi-millionaires, gambling giants, the online shopping app GETIR and the construction giant Mulalley & Co on 28 separate occasions. The gifts include days at the races, hospitality at Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur matches, an Adele gig, and two separate Coldplay concerts. In total, they are worth nearly £30,000. In his five years as Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn only accepted one such freebie: tickets to Glastonbury, where he spoke on the pyramid stage in 2017. Former Corbyn adviser Andrew Fisher told openDemocracy the Islington North MP had made a point of turning down corporate hospitality. “Politicians at any level shouldn’t be beholden to corporate interests,” he said. “They’re elected to represent the people, and are well paid for it.”

I’m in agreement with comments below. We have been crushed by 14 years of Tory decrepitude. Most people are weary of politicians and politics. Hopefully when things slowly(slowly) improve then maybe they will be more enthusiasm …..

I disagree Lewis that the low turnout is a problem from Labour - if you dont vote you dont count, you have given up your democratic right and have no option but to accept the outcome - with no grounds to complain. In my view turnout was 100% - that being 100% of those who got themselves off their backsides and voted.

Didn’t matter how many SNP or pro-independence MPs were elected to Westminster, last year or last week - Scotland always treated with contempt by 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Labour/Tories (remember Labour bullying Speaker on SNP Gaza vote?).

This Labour government will be our worst nightmare come true.

As long as he doesn't do a Truss.😂🎉

Reform took a massive vote share from the tories. Labour won by default now they have to build on it

When a government ask the people what they need this i think is democracy When a government tell people what they need thats dictatorship My question is which one is the government in England

My concern with his appointments is Jacqui Smith was embroiled in the expenses scandal and that raises questions around integrity which was put forward by Sir Keir Starmer.

As a Labour member and activist who was devastated by the result in 2019 and the chaos in the Labour party that led to it, Keir Starmer felt like a breath of fresh air when he first became leader. After the chaos in our country under the Tory government I can tell people will feel that same breath of fresh air.

While Labours vote share is thin (some might call it efficient) you need to consider the tactical voting that happened and when you add up the vote share for left and right, the left have a majority. Tories and Reform only made up 38% of votes, I think all but these voters will be happier with Labour than the Tories in power

Voter ID prevented 3 people I know from voting in time

I know I am a foreigner .. but didn't the tories and Johnson have a majority ?

Very much like it in Wales for decades under W Labour

Lewis just cannot let others finish their sentences

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="137">2:17</a> Lowest turnout or not, it does not matter one jot- Labour is in GOVERNMENT. period! In a Horse race of just 4 runners, if my wins by a nose- I wouldn't care one bit- I get PAID, I'm a WINNER!

The nation is looking at an Atlee moment in regards to a Labour government with a massive majority and people quickly forgot what Labour did back then with such a majority not least of which was the creation of the NHS, schools, housing, the list just went on and on not least of which they also grew the economy all on the back of a country crawling out from under a world war. Yes, when you start from the bottom any improvement is amplified but after what the Tory party has done the comparison is easy to make. Labour will move things forward quickly and people will see the improvements and it would appear that Starmer has hit the ground running and if that generates momentum it is going to be hard for people not to recognise.

Nothing like listening to a couple of LBC Conservatives setting unrealistic expectations for a Labour PM after 2 days in office.

He either meets his pledges or eventually the electorate will turn on him. With a big majority, he'll have no one else to blame if he fails. No pressure 😬

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It seems stupidly early to talk about the NEXT GE. But, this record low turnout is a key thing. To my mind, it indicates how much a lot of people have become disillusioned with politics as we have come to know it. Whatever Labour can, or cannot achieve in that period, that turnout will tell us whether the population, the people themselves, have reconnected with politics, or abandoned it completely. And Heaven help us if that's the case.

Tell you what- if Starmer continues with the Tories' austerity and I don't find things are improved and life better under Labour, I will never, ever vote Labour ever again: not even tactically. Ever.

So no mention of the people who couldn't vote as the postal vote system broke down or the impact of voter ID when talking about a low turnout?

He can do whatever he wants but this can lead to arrogance and a kind of dictatorship that people what soon reject.

First Pass the post isn’t so bad when you consider the fact that proportional representation is what they had in Weimar Germany

Appointment of Jacqui Smith is a joke 😢

The Tories don’t have enough MPs to fill all the shadow posts!

There not giving state pension to anyone who owns there own home or who has 16k in the bank.

Host is clueless as it’s easy to sit in a warm cozy studio and pass judgement on others performance… Everyone needs to take take a moment. It’s only been l2 days. Give them a chance to get in and start the work. Easy to forget , how much damage the previous govt has done. They will need time analyse, find solutions and deliver…

Didn't the Tories lose 50% of the proposed Rwanda travelers

How many Tory's staid home instead of voting

Hey America presidential election you get more votes than your opponent and still lose the election.

excellent news

They've done nothing as predicted, useless.

Up just over 1%, worth to mention that.

Blair needs to do one.

The one change I would like to see is in job market the Senior management stop asking more for less and only hiring experienced people into the companies. Fed up with Job adverts asking unreasonable amount of experience for entry, associate and junior level positions. I know most probably there will be no change and no one care but youth is the future of a country no matter which part of the world you are.

This election has shown, just how ridiculous the British electoral system is. I like the result, but not how it was achieved. Having 64% of seats on just 34% of the votes is just utterly wrong.

Solve the obvious problems and the Reform vote will be cut in half

Well the Tories have set the bar so low that it's not going to be that hard to be an improvement. It's whether Starmer has the backbone to tax the hand that feeds him. Will Starmer have the guts to chase politicians like Johnson and Sunak and Mone for their abuses of power and the profiteering they made from it. If Starmer wants to restore the public's faith in politics, then he needs to show that nobody is above the law. Corporate sponsorship needs to be taken out of politics and then just about everything else can be fixed. An economy is like a balanced meal. There is no 'super foods' and cutting one food group altogether doesn't work. Global business has been that false super food for too long, and yet it now currently owns politics in most Countries.

What an achievement 20pct of the electorate

Blair's re0 has fell big time, he went from being a superb PM in the late 90s to someone who seems to keep pulling labour apart

Borrow and tax the super rich to invest in public services. Not that hard. Dont need to tax the workers.

Renationalise all our public services the Tories carved up & sold off which they then bought up all the shares in, renationalise the utilities, gas, electricity and water, renationalise all transport, buses & trains, a national not for profit bank, millions of publicly owned homes with rent caps & introduce the same rent caps for all private rentals.

Can anyone tell me what is Labour's tax plan?

Fix the NHS … that’s it. Closer relations with the EU would be nice, but, just fix the NHS

Starmer was lucky reform split the tort vote I wouldn’t vote for any of them

The first boat has arrived ... quickly build those homes...

Well, i dont think he can do whatever he wants - there is still the law that limits his imagination. the former party sure showed ambition to get rid of such pesky things like human rights laws - but i do believe that Labour is a bit more law abiding.

Meet the new Boss Same as the old Boss

I think Lewis is rather missing the main thing that affects all governments, no matter how big their majority is: "Events, dear boy. Events.". Let us not forget that the great reforming Liberal government of 1906 had a monumental majority and were out of power within a few years. Historians are already looking at comparisons.

Luvin' it!

Top tier presenting

It's not true that we've not seen an unassailable majority before in recent history. Boris Johnson got an 80 seat majority in 2019 but the Tories have blown that. What worries me is that if Labour don't deliver the country may swing strongly to the right at the next election or maybe the one after that. Labour don't have much money to play with either.

You say 4-5years is a long time away …. Believe me it will go in a wink of an eye in politics 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬

If they want to make a lot of people happy and make a lot of revenue each year to fund the nations rebuilding they should legalise cannabis, the majority of people who others will say will be an NHS burden already will be, but they'll instead be paying money into a taxed product instead and remove all the street battles over the selling of it at the same time.

I wonder if lots of postal votes have disappeared... funny how the return address was the local Tory office ..when it's ment to go to the local council....kemis seat is having a recount apparently

I want the Labour party to run the country for us. There is no news in that. So LBC start thinking of news worthy articles that we find interesting that has nothing to do with politics. Politics should be boring and uninteresting like running a home. We only get interested in our homes when we are having something new and exiting. Politics should be the same. If the PM is opening a factory then cover it, otherwise move on the the next AI story LBC.

I agree Tony Blair and his right wing mindset and hidden islamophobia will be a problem - if Stamer lets it be.

As a political term, Tory was an insult (derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe, modern Irish tóraí, meaning "outlaw", "robber", from the Irish word tóir, meaning "pursuit" since outlaws were "pursued men") that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678-1681. The Conservative Party wear the name proudly...