Starmer begins UK 'rebuild' after landslide election win

Britain's incoming Prime Minister and leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer, walks to the podium to address the nation after his general election victory, outside 10 Downing Street in London on July 5, 2024. [AFP]

Newly elected Labour prime minister Keir Starmer will kickstart his plan to "rebuild Britain" on his first full day in charge Saturday after his party's landslide election win ended 14 years of Conservative rule.

Starmer spent his first hours in Downing Street on Friday appointing his ministerial team, hours after securing centre-left Labour's return to power with a whopping 174-seat majority in the UK parliament.