Keir Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in Britain's July 4th election. Initially, European equity markets (^FCHI, ^FTSE, ^SBF120) were seeing slight gains on this news, but now, at the time of posting this video, they appear to be pulling back on their excitement.

The Morning Brief welcomes Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Akiko Fujita to talk about the British pound's reaction to these headlines and Goldman Sachs' current outlook on Britain's economic growth as Starmer shifts into his new leadership role as UK prime minister.

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.