Counting of ballots was under way across the country, with official results expected from late Thursday into Friday, putting Labour leader Keir Starmer on course to replace Rishi Sunak as prime minister.
An exit poll predicting that the Labour Party led by Keir Starmer will win 410 seats in Britain’s general election is projected onto BBC Broadcasting House in London on July 4, 2024. – Labour is set for landslide win in UK election, exit polls showed.
In another boost for the centrists, the smaller opposition Liberal Democrats would get 61 seats, but Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform UK could secure 13.was under way across the country, with official results expected from late Thursday into Friday, putting Labour leader Keir Starmer on course to replace Rishi Sunak as prime minister.
After a sleepless night of counting and declarations, the winner is expected to meet head of state King Charles III, who will ask the leader of the largest party to form a government. The former human rights lawyer and chief public prosecutor was elected Labour leader in early 2020, succeeding the veteran leftist Jeremy Corbyn, who lost by a landslide to Boris Johnson in 2019.Since then, he has dragged the party back to the centre ground, making it a more electable proposition and purging ideological infighting and anti-Semitism that lost it support.
Keir Starmer — the working-class son of a toolmaker and a nurse — has promised “a decade of national renewal”.
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