Challenges aplenty for UK’s 2024 election winners

2024 elections The UK, 14 years after Conservatives won power UK election winners inherit huge challenges, from economy to health The winners of Britain's election on Thursday - which looks set to end 14 years in power for the Conservative Party - will take on some of the biggest challenges faced by any new government since the end of World War Two. The economy has struggled to grow, health and other services are under severe strain and there is little room in the public finances to fix them. The government is also lagging behind its targets for immigration and house-building. Opinion polls give a large lead to Keir Starmer's opposition Labour Party over Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives. The graphics below highlight some of the main tasks ahead for the next government. Economy Britain, like many other rich nations, has managed only sluggish economic growth for most of the period after the global financial crisis of 2008-09. Growth in Britain since 2010 - when the Conservatives took power - has been stronger than in Germany, France or Italy. But the lead is marginal. Taking account of changing population numbers - which have risen sharply in Britain due to high immigration