UK election: Sunak battles to the end as Labour’s Starmer eyes victory
Associated PressLONDON — Rishi Sunak has covered thousands of miles in the past few weeks, but he hasn’t outrun the expectation that his time as Britain’s prime minister is in its final hours. AP AUDIO: In the UK election campaign’s final hours, Sunak battles to the end as Labour’s Starmer eyes victory AP correspondent Jill Lawless reports a strong connection could be forged between the Biden administration and a UK parliament led by Keir Starmer’s Labour party. The Sun said in an editorial Wednesday that “by dragging his party back to the center ground of British politics for the first time since Tony Blair was in No.10, Sir Keir has won the right to take charge.” Former Labour candidate Douglas Beattie, author of the book “How Labour Wins,” said Starmer’s “quiet stability probably chimes with the mood of the country right now.” “The country is looking for fresh ideas, moving away from a government that’s exhausted and divided,” Beattie said. “I don’t know who’s for me as a working person,” said Michelle Bird, a port worker in Southampton on England’s south coast who was undecided about whether to vote Labour or Conservative. “So I think that while the outcome of this election is pretty clear, I think all bets are off in terms of what, what Labour’s support is going to look like over the next few years.” Starmer has agreed that his biggest challenge is “the mindset in some voters that everything’s broken, nothing can be fixed.” “And secondly, a sense of mistrust in politics because of so many promises having been made over the last 14 years which weren’t carried through,” he told broadcaster ITV on Tuesday.