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Burnham was elected MP in June after the Makerfield by-election, before securing the Labour Party leadership and becoming prime minister after Sir Keir Starmer lost the support of Labour MPs and quit Downing Street.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
In March, the firm elected private-equity partner Ramona Nee to take over leadership in January 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
Still, there have been instances in which decisions by independent arbitrators contributed to a municipality’s economic challenges, and elected officials were unable to unwind the rulings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026
Lula is a longtime labor activist and co-founder of the left-wing Workers’ Party, who ran losing campaigns for president three times before being elected in 2002 and reelected in 2006.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
In fact, before Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, ten of the first fifteen American presidents owned enslaved people or grew up in slaveholding households.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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