By Priyanka Deshpande
CNBC-TV18.com
Published July 5, 2024
The United Kingdom on July 4, 2024, voted out Conservative Party’s Rishi Sunak and chose Labour Party’s Keir Starmer as the country’s new prime minister with a landslide majority.
Starmer, 61, assumed charge as the 58th prime minister after his customary audience with King Charles III at Buckingham Palace, following Sunak’s meeting with the British monarch. Take a look at post war shortest and longest serving UK prime ministers: