Keir Starmer Will Visit All Four Nations After Election Landslide

Prime Minister Keir Starmer will set off on a series of visits to all four nations of the United Kingdom on Sunday, after he won a landslide victory at the General Election.

Labour won a majority of 172 seats with 34 per cent of the vote on Thursday, the largest parliamentary victory of any political party since 1997. After Starmer visited King Charles to ask to form a Government, the new Prime Minister began appointing his cabinet on Friday. He will finalise his junior ministerial team on Saturday afternoon. 

At his first press conference in Downing Street, the Prime Minister said he would visit all four nations of the United Kingdom after his party gained a majority of seats in England, Scotland and Wales. 

Starmer confirmed he would first travel to Scotland before travelling to Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK's new Prime Minister will also meet the first ministers of the devolved nations where he will begn to establish a working relationship as well as discussing the critical issues facing them. 

After he has visited all four nations of the UK, Starmer will sit in meetings with England's metro mayors including Sadiq Kahn, Andy Burnham and Ben Houchen. 

"I'm not a tribal politician," he said. "And the principle I operate to, whether it's mayors or other elected representatives, is that where regional leaders want to deliver for their area, then regardless of the colour of their rosette, my door is open."

On Tuesday the Prime Minister will go to Washington and represent the UK at the NATO summit. Starmer said he had already taken calls from world leaders where he spoke about international issues such as the war in Ukraine. 

"It is for me to be absolutely clear that the first duty of my government is security and defense, to