Labor asks Sunak for early elections

MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Labor Party has made this Monday a new call for early elections taking advantage of the election of Rishi Sunak as the new leader of the Conservative Party and therefore as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

"He has not been elected. He has no answers. He has no ideas," said Labour's 'number two', Angela Rayner. "What we have seen is a coronation and not a royal election where people put their trust in someone to rule the British people," she added.

"No one has voted for him. People deserve to have a say in the future of the UK in a general election. It's time for a fresh start with Labour," he appealed.

Meanwhile, the chief minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon, has urged Sunak to put aside cuts and austerity and has assured that he will do "everything he can" to collaborate with the new tenant of Downing Street.

Sturgeon has also called for early elections and has defended the need for Scotland to be able to decide on its own future as an independent country. "Scotland needs independence", he has riveted her.

"He is the first British Asian, the first member of an ethnic minority to become prime minister, so it is an important moment," he stressed after congratulating him on his election.

The polls predict a clear victory for the Labor Party in the event of elections being held and Sturgeon's Scottish National Party traditionally aligns itself on social issues and public spending with the party led by Keir Starmer.

However, Sunak does not seem willing to advance the elections and could exhaust the legislature to hold the next elections in January 2025.