Keir Starmer appoints former Labour PM Gordon Brown as adviser after election flop

LONDON: With Labour losing power of 36 councils and 1,436 councillors successful the section polls and finishing 2nd with Reform UK successful the Scottish parliament, embattled PM Keir Starmer brought backmost erstwhile Labour PM Gordon Brown and appointed him arsenic his "special envoy connected planetary concern and cooperation" to "work with our planetary allies to physique a stronger Britain".Conservative MP Andrew Griffith tweeted a meme of Brown connected a DeLorean extracurricular No. 10 with the words "Back to the Past", saying: "As a 'Hail Mary pass' goes, bringing backmost Labour's biggest loser, who sold £40 cardinal of Britain's golden earlier starring Labour to a wide predetermination defeat, astir apt needs a spot of work..."So far, 30 Labour MPs, including Barry Gardiner and Nadia Whittome, person called for Starmer to resign.

But 80 Labour MPs would request to backmost anyone wanting to situation his enactment nether enactment rules. On TV, voters said they were fed up with the precocious outgo of living, spiralling taxes, squeezed surviving standards and amerciable immigration.Reform UK by Saturday night, with conscionable 4 councils near to declare, had gained 1,449 councillors and 14 councils, and the Greens gained 397 councillors and 4 councils. Labour MP Dan Carden wrote connected X: "Britain's moving and little middle-class communities" spot the Labour enactment "as tally by and for progressive elites...

the lanyard class".Birmingham City assembly went from Labour-run to nary wide power with a full scope of parties and 13 Independents, mostly Muslims connected a Gaza ticket, winning. The confederation of Independent candidates was organised by activists Akhmed Yakoob and Shakeel Afsar. Afsar was portion of the mob that descended connected the Smethwick Hindu temple successful Birmingham successful 2022.