UK Labour Party sweeps to power in historic election win. But impatient voters mean big challenges

Official results show that Britain’s Labour Party has swept to power after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate appeared to hand the party a landslide victory but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation. Labour leader Keir Starmer will officially become prime minister later Friday, leading his party back to government less than five years after it suffered its worst defeat in almost a century. In the brutal choreography of British politics, he will take charge in 10 Downing St. hours after the votes are counted. Conservative leader Rishi Sunak will be hustled out. Speaking as drawn broke in London, Starmer said Labour would offer “the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger though the day.”