'Ab ki baar chaar sau paar': UK's Labour landslide follows a pattern we saw in India too
New Indian ExpressThe Keir Starmer-led centre-left Labour Party won by a landslide in the UK elections on Friday morning. Keen observers of Indian politics may well quip that "Ab ki baar chaar sau paar" has finally happened somewhere in the world. UK's GDP growth rate, too, is slowing down dramatically after a brief 2022 Q1 euphoria of 11% growth. According to a June report published by the BBC, UK's unemployment rate in February this year was 4.4%, the highest-ever joblessness number in the post-Covid era. He has to overhaul immigration, the National Health Service, growth, employment, relations with other European countries, and the UK's foreign policy, especially in the wake of tensions in the Indo-Pacific, the Israel-Hamas war and the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
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