Britain's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer on Sunday (July 7) vowed to deliver for Scotland, "making good on my commitment" at a meeting with Scottish Labour Leader, Anas Sarwar, in Edinburgh, just two days after the election.
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00:00My friend, our Prime Minister, Keir Starmer.
00:04Britain's Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, on Sunday vowed to deliver for Scotland,
00:09making good on my commitment at a meeting with Scottish Labour leader
00:13Anna Sarwar in Edinburgh just two days after the election.
00:17Starmer, whose party won 37 seats in Scotland,
00:21said he would travel there first before heading to Northern Ireland and Wales
00:24to cement the relationship with the country's devolved governments.
00:29Thank you, Anna, my friend. Without your leadership,
00:32we would not have achieved this here in Scotland.
00:35And I can't tell you how important it is to me to be here in Scotland with you
00:4248 hours after the King invited me to form a government.
00:49That was an incredible honour and privilege.
00:52And to be here two days later, making good on my commitment to Scotland
00:57by making a start is hugely important to me.
01:00And to be with you and us for this first engagement, I think,
01:04cements the relationship, the hard work that we have done together
01:08over so many years, because that was an incredible election result,
01:13a historic result and a real, real mandate for change.
01:19Thank you so much.
01:21The Labour leader won one of the largest parliamentary majorities
01:24in modern British history on Friday, making him the most powerful British leader
01:29since former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
01:32But he faces a number of challenges, including improving struggling public services
01:37and reviving a weak economy.