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From the New York Times, I'm Natalie Kitrowev, and this is the daily for more than a decade, Britain has been governed by Conservatives who push the UK to the right, embracing smaller government and Brexit. Last week, that era officially came to an end. My colleague Mark Landler explains why uk voters rejected the conservative party and what a win by the british left means in a world where right wing populism is on the rise. It's Wednesday, July 10. Mark, hi, welcome back to the show.

Hi there, Natalie.

I want to start this conversation by just asking you to help us break down what exactly happened in the uk elections last week.

Well, the top line was the conservative party, which has been in government here for 14 years, was swept out in a resounding landslide by the labor party. So remember, the Conservatives, often known as the Tories, are the right of center party. Labor is traditionally the left of center party, closely allied with the trade unions. So what happened in this election is that labor won more than 400 seats in the parliament, compared to only 121 seats for the Conservatives. And so that puts the labor leader Keir Starmer into ten Downing street as the prime minister. It opens a new chapter in british politics after more than a decade of conservative rule, and it represents a resounding repudiation of the Conservatives by a very angry electorate.

This is just a massive shift. What caused that turnaround after a decade plus of conservative rule? What made the british voters reject the Tories? In this election, there were really three.

Underlying issues that accumulated in a way that simply turned voters against them. So I'd start with the economy. It's the bedrock issue, the one that really underlies everything. And that story starts back in 2010, when the Conservatives first come back into government. Our economy is stuck in a rut and we need change to get it moving. Let me tell you what I would do at that time. They position themselves as the responsible stewards coming in in the aftermath of the global financial crisis to get Britain's house back in order to put Britain back on a responsible course.

Britain's budget deficit is so huge, says David Cameron. The cuts of a massive 83 billion pounds are needed.

It'll be the most dramatic cutback of government spending since the 1920s. And so they embarked on this period that's known as fiscal austerity. They basically cut back funding for everything. They include 500,000 layoffs, cuts in welfare benefits, and major cuts in the military. In a sense, it balanced the books, but it did so at a great cost to the economy and to public life in Britain. The report by the International Monetary Fund did warn that austerity measures may be jeopardizing growth. Britain ended up with a very slow growth economy, slow growth in wages, that left healthcare area, but it's most palpable and really most visible to citizens in the NHS.And part of the Tories identity, right, is that they were the party of fiscal responsibility, that they were the best stewards of the economy. And it sounds like that really is no longer holding up in Britain, and that they've actually become seen as the ones who are causing these very real problems, everyday problems for the average voter.Yeah, I think that's right. I think that to the average voter, the mismanagement of the economy became linked to other things that affected the quality of their everyday lives. And then there's a final thing, and also very core to the identity of the modern conservative party. One of the major arguments that the pro Brexit people made was that this will enable us to cut down on mass uncontrolled immigration. And they failed utterly in that goal as well. The number of net arrivals in the country has gone up from 300,000 to 780,000. So rather than declining after Brexit, immigration soared.How did that happen? Why didn't immigration go down after Brexit, if that was the big promise?Well, this is one of the interesting paradoxes of the whole Brexit period.This is the first time in nearly 40 years where the british government will be in control and will determine its own immigration policy.When Britain left the European Union, it did actually end freedom of travel for people from the European Union.We are bringing an end to free movement of labor, which, of course, is linked to our membership of the European Union.So what you saw much less of in London, for example, was waiters from Italy, Greece, Spain, in restaurants. But what the government was doing, you know, rather quietly, was changing the immigration rules.Some important news today on long term migration into the UK. In the year June, there's been a surge in long term immigration, so that.Rather than allowing relatively young, unskilled workers from the EU, the country began being more open to much higher skilled people from other parts of the world.Now the jump is caused by a rise in non ethnic EU migration, with special factors at play overseas students coming back to the UK as Covid restrictions have relapsed.So while you see much fewer polish plumbers, for example, you see many more indian, sri lankan, pakistani doctors, special support.To people from Ukraine and Hong Kong.And, of course, you see many more filipina nurses and, of course, the impact.Of the afghan resettlement program, many more.Graduate students from Nigeria or other parts of Africa. So immigration didn't decline. It's the nature of immigration changed.Does that make people mad? Because I think we're used to seeing, in the US at least, that the frustration and resentment towards immigrants is usually related to the people who are coming in and are in more desperate situations, not folks getting angry about doctors or lawyers from abroad.It's a very complicated issue, and I'm glad you asked it this way, because it is in fact true that for many english people, going to a hospital and being treated by an indian doctor does not arouse any resentment. They're grateful that they have a doctor who's able to see them. The problem arises more from immigration in the aggregate. The net migration to this country has increased massively. We've just spoken. There's this sense that the borders have been thrown open.How many more houses do we have.To build that immigration is out of control? Are they being schooled and educated and looked after by our social and health services?That's my main concern. How are we going to be able to cope? Because we're not really coping now, are we?So there is this kind of nagging sense on the part of many people. By the way, it's not just people on the right that immigration has gotten out of control, that this government had promised to sort of bring it under control, and instead the opposite seems to be happening.Basically, it sounds like there's a lot of people who wanted Brexit specifically to reduce migration. These are folks who felt betrayed by the Tories because they got the opposite result. And that's part of a bigger thread here. Right. This is a story about mismanagement of core issues for the british public. The economy's a mess, immigration's rising. The health care system is rife with dysfunction. So is it fair to see the results of the election as essentially a rejection of conservatism in the UK and of the ideals that brought us brexit, which was so core to much of this story?I think it's certainly fair to see this election as a rejection of a party that failed at its most basic task, which was governing effectively and responsibly. On the face of it, it looks like a triumph of the left. But when you dig into it, when you see how the voters voted, which parties did well, which did less well, you get a much more complicated picture about what it is that voters really wanted.We'll be right back.Overtake your expectations with the arrival of the brand new, fully electric basically argue that Britain needs to get this flood of immigrants under control. It's led by this very well known, gleeful insurgent politician named Nigel Farage. He's been a fixture on the right in Britain for more than a decade. He was one of the primary campaigners for Brexit, and he fielded hundreds and hundreds of candidates in this election. And what they wound up doing was siphoning off a lot of the conservative vote.And how typical is it to see this many parties do well in UK politics? I mean, what do you make of the fact that these smaller, more obscure groups were able to do so well?Well, it is quite unusual, and it speaks to a couple of things. One is that you have an electorate that, particularly among young voters, is much less loyal to the major parties. So in this election, labor and the Conservatives together got only 57% of the vote. That's the lowest combined percentage for the major parties at any time in the post world war two period. So that's the overarching dynamic. But there's something very interesting going on with votes on the right in this election, you had a number of conservative voters vote for Reform UK as a way of registering their unhappiness with the conservative party, particularly on the issue of immigration. They knew that those votes would help ensure that a Labor party got into government, but deeper understanding of the world. When you subscribe to the New York Times, it's not just here are the headlines, but here's the way everything fits together. If you'd like to subscribe, please go to nytimes.com subscribe.Here's what else you should know today. Are you confident that President Biden has what it takes to win in November and start the next four years?As I've said before, I'm with Joe. Yes.Top congressional Democrats are indicating they are unwilling, for now at least, to push President Biden aside despite deep concerns about his ability to win re election.What was, was there more people saying Biden should step down or more people saying he should step down? We're riding with Biden. We're riding with Biden.House and Senate Democrats emerged from private meetings on Tuesday swearing allegiance to Biden, but the party remains deeply fractured. Biden has remained strong thanks to the backing of key constituencies, including the Congressional Black Caucus, which has come out in strong support of the president's candidacy. Today's episode was produced by Rob Zipko, Nina Feldman and William Will Reid. It was edited by Brendan Klinkenberg with help from Paige Cowett, contains original music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk. Of wonderly. That's it for the daily I'm Natalie Kitroev. See you tomorrow.

healthcare area, but it's most palpable and really most visible to citizens in the NHS.

And part of the Tories identity, right, is that they were the party of fiscal responsibility, that they were the best stewards of the economy. And it sounds like that really is no longer holding up in Britain, and that they've actually become seen as the ones who are causing these very real problems, everyday problems for the average voter.

Yeah, I think that's right. I think that to the average voter, the mismanagement of the economy became linked to other things that affected the quality of their everyday lives. And then there's a final thing, and also very core to the identity of the modern conservative party. One of the major arguments that the pro Brexit people made was that this will enable us to cut down on mass uncontrolled immigration. And they failed utterly in that goal as well. The number of net arrivals in the country has gone up from 300,000 to 780,000. So rather than declining after Brexit, immigration soared.

How did that happen? Why didn't immigration go down after Brexit, if that was the big promise?

Well, this is one of the interesting paradoxes of the whole Brexit period.

This is the first time in nearly 40 years where the british government will be in control and will determine its own immigration policy.

When Britain left the European Union, it did actually end freedom of travel for people from the European Union.

We are bringing an end to free movement of labor, which, of course, is linked to our membership of the European Union.

So what you saw much less of in London, for example, was waiters from Italy, Greece, Spain, in restaurants. But what the government was doing, you know, rather quietly, was changing the immigration rules.

Some important news today on long term migration into the UK. In the year June, there's been a surge in long term immigration, so that.

Rather than allowing relatively young, unskilled workers from the EU, the country began being more open to much higher skilled people from other parts of the world.

Now the jump is caused by a rise in non ethnic EU migration, with special factors at play overseas students coming back to the UK as Covid restrictions have relapsed.

So while you see much fewer polish plumbers, for example, you see many more indian, sri lankan, pakistani doctors, special support.

To people from Ukraine and Hong Kong.

And, of course, you see many more filipina nurses and, of course, the impact.

Of the afghan resettlement program, many more.

Graduate students from Nigeria or other parts of Africa. So immigration didn't decline. It's the nature of immigration changed.

Does that make people mad? Because I think we're used to seeing, in the US at least, that the frustration and resentment towards immigrants is usually related to the people who are coming in and are in more desperate situations, not folks getting angry about doctors or lawyers from abroad.

It's a very complicated issue, and I'm glad you asked it this way, because it is in fact true that for many english people, going to a hospital and being treated by an indian doctor does not arouse any resentment. They're grateful that they have a doctor who's able to see them. The problem arises more from immigration in the aggregate. The net migration to this country has increased massively. We've just spoken. There's this sense that the borders have been thrown open.

How many more houses do we have.

To build that immigration is out of control? Are they being schooled and educated and looked after by our social and health services?

That's my main concern. How are we going to be able to cope? Because we're not really coping now, are we?

So there is this kind of nagging sense on the part of many people. By the way, it's not just people on the right that immigration has gotten out of control, that this government had promised to sort of bring it under control, and instead the opposite seems to be happening.

Basically, it sounds like there's a lot of people who wanted Brexit specifically to reduce migration. These are folks who felt betrayed by the Tories because they got the opposite result. And that's part of a bigger thread here. Right. This is a story about mismanagement of core issues for the british public. The economy's a mess, immigration's rising. The health care system is rife with dysfunction. So is it fair to see the results of the election as essentially a rejection of conservatism in the UK and of the ideals that brought us brexit, which was so core to much of this story?

I think it's certainly fair to see this election as a rejection of a party that failed at its most basic task, which was governing effectively and responsibly. On the face of it, it looks like a triumph of the left. But when you dig into it, when you see how the voters voted, which parties did well, which did less well, you get a much more complicated picture about what it is that voters really wanted.

We'll be right back.

Overtake your expectations with the arrival of the brand new, fully electric basically argue that Britain needs to get this flood of immigrants under control. It's led by this very well known, gleeful insurgent politician named Nigel Farage. He's been a fixture on the right in Britain for more than a decade. He was one of the primary campaigners for Brexit, and he fielded hundreds and hundreds of candidates in this election. And what they wound up doing was siphoning off a lot of the conservative vote.And how typical is it to see this many parties do well in UK politics? I mean, what do you make of the fact that these smaller, more obscure groups were able to do so well?Well, it is quite unusual, and it speaks to a couple of things. One is that you have an electorate that, particularly among young voters, is much less loyal to the major parties. So in this election, labor and the Conservatives together got only 57% of the vote. That's the lowest combined percentage for the major parties at any time in the post world war two period. So that's the overarching dynamic. But there's something very interesting going on with votes on the right in this election, you had a number of conservative voters vote for Reform UK as a way of registering their unhappiness with the conservative party, particularly on the issue of immigration. They knew that those votes would help ensure that a Labor party got into government, but deeper understanding of the world. When you subscribe to the New York Times, it's not just here are the headlines, but here's the way everything fits together. If you'd like to subscribe, please go to nytimes.com subscribe.Here's what else you should know today. Are you confident that President Biden has what it takes to win in November and start the next four years?As I've said before, I'm with Joe. Yes.Top congressional Democrats are indicating they are unwilling, for now at least, to push President Biden aside despite deep concerns about his ability to win re election.What was, was there more people saying Biden should step down or more people saying he should step down? We're riding with Biden. We're riding with Biden.House and Senate Democrats emerged from private meetings on Tuesday swearing allegiance to Biden, but the party remains deeply fractured. Biden has remained strong thanks to the backing of key constituencies, including the Congressional Black Caucus, which has come out in strong support of the president's candidacy. Today's episode was produced by Rob Zipko, Nina Feldman and William Will Reid. It was edited by Brendan Klinkenberg with help from Paige Cowett, contains original music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk. Of wonderly. That's it for the daily I'm Natalie Kitroev. See you tomorrow.

basically argue that Britain needs to get this flood of immigrants under control. It's led by this very well known, gleeful insurgent politician named Nigel Farage. He's been a fixture on the right in Britain for more than a decade. He was one of the primary campaigners for Brexit, and he fielded hundreds and hundreds of candidates in this election. And what they wound up doing was siphoning off a lot of the conservative vote.

And how typical is it to see this many parties do well in UK politics? I mean, what do you make of the fact that these smaller, more obscure groups were able to do so well?

Well, it is quite unusual, and it speaks to a couple of things. One is that you have an electorate that, particularly among young voters, is much less loyal to the major parties. So in this election, labor and the Conservatives together got only 57% of the vote. That's the lowest combined percentage for the major parties at any time in the post world war two period. So that's the overarching dynamic. But there's something very interesting going on with votes on the right in this election, you had a number of conservative voters vote for Reform UK as a way of registering their unhappiness with the conservative party, particularly on the issue of immigration. They knew that those votes would help ensure that a Labor party got into government, but deeper understanding of the world. When you subscribe to the New York Times, it's not just here are the headlines, but here's the way everything fits together. If you'd like to subscribe, please go to nytimes.com subscribe.Here's what else you should know today. Are you confident that President Biden has what it takes to win in November and start the next four years?As I've said before, I'm with Joe. Yes.Top congressional Democrats are indicating they are unwilling, for now at least, to push President Biden aside despite deep concerns about his ability to win re election.What was, was there more people saying Biden should step down or more people saying he should step down? We're riding with Biden. We're riding with Biden.House and Senate Democrats emerged from private meetings on Tuesday swearing allegiance to Biden, but the party remains deeply fractured. Biden has remained strong thanks to the backing of key constituencies, including the Congressional Black Caucus, which has come out in strong support of the president's candidacy. Today's episode was produced by Rob Zipko, Nina Feldman and William Will Reid. It was edited by Brendan Klinkenberg with help from Paige Cowett, contains original music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk. Of wonderly. That's it for the daily I'm Natalie Kitroev. See you tomorrow.

deeper understanding of the world. When you subscribe to the New York Times, it's not just here are the headlines, but here's the way everything fits together. If you'd like to subscribe, please go to nytimes.com subscribe.

Here's what else you should know today. Are you confident that President Biden has what it takes to win in November and start the next four years?

As I've said before, I'm with Joe. Yes.

Top congressional Democrats are indicating they are unwilling, for now at least, to push President Biden aside despite deep concerns about his ability to win re election.

What was, was there more people saying Biden should step down or more people saying he should step down? We're riding with Biden. We're riding with Biden.

House and Senate Democrats emerged from private meetings on Tuesday swearing allegiance to Biden, but the party remains deeply fractured. Biden has remained strong thanks to the backing of key constituencies, including the Congressional Black Caucus, which has come out in strong support of the president's candidacy. Today's episode was produced by Rob Zipko, Nina Feldman and William Will Reid. It was edited by Brendan Klinkenberg with help from Paige Cowett, contains original music by Dan Powell, Diane Wong and Marion Lozano, and was engineered by Alyssa Moxley. Our theme music is by Jim Brunberg and Ben Landsverk. Of wonderly. That's it for the daily I'm Natalie Kitroev. See you tomorrow.