• Monday, 16 December 2024

'We did it,' says Starmer as Labour wins general election

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BBC, July 5: Labour has won a landslide victory in the UK general election-meaning Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister

Labour is expected to win 410 seats, with the Conservatives on 144

Rishi Sunak accepts defeat, and says he has called Starmer to congratulate him

Sunak says calls it a "sobering verdict" adding "I am sorry"

After winning his seat in Holborn and St Pancras, Starmer says "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 lose 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 win

Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington North as an independent, and Labour's Jon Ashworth loses to an independent

George Galloway of the Workers Party loses the seat he won earlier this year, Carla Denyer wins for the Green Party in Bristol Central, while the SNP is forecast to go from 43 seats before the election to just six


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