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Labour has won the general election, with a forecasted ‘supermajority’ of 174 seats – gaining 411 seats at the time of writing.

Keir Starmer will soon be the UK’s fifty-eighth Prime Minister, after he visits the King later today. The composition of the Houses of Parliament will look very different from after the 2019 ‘Brexit’ election, when Boris Johnson secured a majority of 80 seats and Labour suffered its worst result since 1935. Commentators at the time struggled to see how Labour could get back into power, but five years is a long time.

This article is from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity section on Connecting with Culture Issues & Trends.

‘A day of shame for the British state’.

That’s how the prime Minister described the report of the public inquiry into the infected blood scandal, which suggests evidence of a cover up. Thousands of victims were repeatedly failed by the NHS and successive governments, after being infected with HIV and Hepatitis C by imported, contaminated blood.

Campaigner Clive Smith of the Haemophilia Society said: ‘Now the country knows, and the world knows, there was a deliberate attempt to lie and conceal.’

The Prime Minister has promised that changes will be made to ensure this kind of appalling scandal can never happen again – though the recent election announcement suggest those changes will fall to the next government.

This article is from the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity section on Connecting with Culture Issues & Trends.