An exit poll has suggested Rishi Sunak’s term as prime minister will end in a historic defeat.
Sir Keir Starmer is set to be swept to power by a landslide Labour victory as bitter recriminations began in the Tory ranks.
Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson held Houghton and Sunderland South in the first result of the night, but Reform pushed the Conservatives in an early indication of the advances made by Mr Farage’s party. If the results follow the forecast, it will mean a Labour prime minister in No 10 for the first time since 2010 and the Conservatives facing a fight for the future direction of the party.
“I think that we have seen in this election an astonishing ill-discipline within the party,” the former justice secretary told the BBC. Former Cabinet minister Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg said it is “clearly a terrible night”, suggesting voters had been put off by the revolving door in No 10 which saw Boris Johnson replaced first by Liz Truss and then by Mr Sunak.
From the rain-drenched speech announcing the surprise July 4 poll, through the D-Day debacle as he left Normandy early to record a TV interview to confused campaign messaging about a Labour “supermajority”, Mr Sunak struggled to convince the electorate he was the right man to lead the country.
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