Labour leader Keir Starmer met with King Charles on Friday to officially become the UK’s new prime minister. Veuer’s Matt Hoffman has the story.
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00:00Keir Starmer officially became the UK's new Prime Minister upon meeting with King Charles on Friday.
00:05Starmer is the leader of the UK's Labour Party,
00:07which won a massive majority of 412 seats in Thursday's parliamentary elections.
00:12But according to the AP, a new PM can't technically take office
00:15until they're invited to do so by the ruling monarch.
00:18Departing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a Conservative,
00:21visited Buckingham Palace earlier on Friday to resign.
00:24According to the Mirror, Starmer said in 2005
00:26that he used to propose the abolition of England's monarchy.
00:29But the head of that monarchy just placed him on the democratic equivalent of the throne.