Sir Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister of the United Kingdom, his party has won a landslide as top Tories including Liz Truss, Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps are kicked out. Reform UK have four seats so far including Nigel Farage – and it’s been a record night for the Lib Dems.
As the final election figures come in, Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 144.
More so, Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat and said he called Starmer to congratulate him. On the election results, Sunak said it was a “sobering verdict” adding “I am sorry”.
After winning his seat in Holborn and St Pancras, Starmer said “The change begins right here…it is time for us to deliver”.
In the highest-profile Conservative losses so far, defence secretary Grant Shapps, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Penny Mordaunt also lost to Labour.
Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, becomes an MP for the first time, winning Clacton, while the party’s Richard Tice and Lee Anderson also won.
Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn won Islington North as an independent, and Labour’s Jon Ashworth lost to an independent.
George Galloway of the Workers Party lost the seat he won earlier this year.
Also, Carla Denyer won for the Green Party in Bristol Central, while the SNP is forecast to go from 43 seats before the election to just six.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ELECTION
- Labour win landslide, with Sir Keir Starmer declaring: ‘Change begins now’ View post
- Rishi Sunak conceded defeat at around 4.40am as likes of Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Grant Shapps lose seats View post
- Nigel Farage becomes MP as Reform third in vote share and currently have four seats
- Record night for Lib Dems who will be third biggest party in Westminster – as SNP collapse
- Labour’s vote share declines in areas with large Muslim populations amid Gaza anger – with Jonathan Ashworth ousted
- Liz Truss unexpectedly loses safe seat
- |Hunt’s great escape
- Record number of cabinet ministers lose
