General election 2024: Join our event examining the rise of Reform and Labour’s landslide victory
Our expert panel will be analysing the major election triumphs, biggest setbacks and key outcomes for each of the UK’s major political parties
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Your support makes all the difference.Join The Independent as our expert panel picks apart the key moments from the 2024 general election.
We’ll be analysing the Labour Party’s major triumphs, the Conservative Party’s biggest setbacks and key outcomes for each of the UK’s major political parties after Sir Keir Starmer was handed the keys to Downing Street.
The landslide victory for Labour came after Nigel Farage’s Reform UK split the Tory vote. It saw several cabinet ministers lose their seats, with Commons leader Penny Mordaunt, defence secretary Grant Shapps, and education secretary Gillian Keegan among the big beasts voted out.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats celebrated huge gains despite consistently polling fourth in the national vote share during the campaign.
Hosted by our chief political commentator John Rentoul, this event will also offer a deep dive into the immediate and long-term challenges facing the newly elected Labour government, including immigration, the cost of living, the NHS, education, Brexit and more.
Our panel includes The Independent’s own Andrew Grice, a political columnist and former political editor from 1998 to 2015. He has worked in Westminster since 1982 and unearthed many political scoops.
Also joining our event is Anand Menon. A leading expert on Brexit, Professor Menon is director of UK in a Changing Europe, an initiative which includes academics from universities across the country who specialise in the EU. It is an authoritative source of independent research on UK-EU relations.
Professor Menon is professor of European politics and foreign affairs at King’s College, London, where the project is based.
Don’t miss this opportunity to understand the UK’s new political reality and its consequences.
The event will be hosted on Zoom and will last one hour. It will take place on Thursday July 11 and will start at 7pm BST.
Once signed up you will be able to ask questions to the panel. You can also post questions in the comments of this article.
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