Nagy-Britannia miniszterelnökét Tony Blairt harmadszor is megválasztották, így a Munkáspárt első alkalommal nyer háromszor egymás után. De a miniszterelnök parlamenti többsége erősen lecsökkent. Naomi Grimley jelenti:

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As Mr Blair stepped up to a stage to make his victory speech, his supporters chanted "Four more years". They prefer to see this election in very simple terms - they won, and what's more they won for a third time. That's been done before by Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative party, but never by the Labour party.

Even so, Mr Blair's majority has been halved by this result. His advisors admit that the war in Iraq played an important part in that. They think it meant traditional Labour supporters either stayed at home or voted for other candidates. So Mr Blair is promising to listen more to the public and govern "sensibly and wisely".

As for the main opposition party - the Conservatives - it was always unlikely they'd achieve the ten percent swing they needed to win this race but they have made some significant gains in areas like London. And Britain's third party - the Liberal Democrats - have also increased their number of MPs. So the new Labour government has won power but they do so with the lowest share of the popular vote in modern British history.

Naomi Grimley, BBC Political Reporter

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chanted
kántálták

terms
kifejezés

halved
megfelezve

to govern
kormányozni, vezetni

sensibly
józanul, ésszerűen

swing
változás, eltolódás, kilengés

made some significant gains
itt: nagy mértékben megnövelte a parlamenti képviseletet

popular vote
itt: szavazatok összessége