It was a bitter defeat for Prime Minister Sunak’s conservative Tories: an early BBC poll showed Labor leading the ruling party with 410 of the 650 seats. It lost 241 seats to finish at 131.
Keir Starmer’s opposition Labor Party has clearly won the general election in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, according to a BBC post-election poll. The 61-year-old is a likely successor to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, whose conservative Tories suffered a heavy defeat.
According to reports, Labor is ahead of the ruling party with 410 seats. So the Tories have 131 seats – 241 fewer than at the previous election. It may take several hours for all the votes to be counted. But there was no doubt about the key outcome of the election: 14 years of dominance by the conservative Tories was over.
Many Cabinet members Orders may be lost
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner responded to the forecast with dignified composure. It was an “encouraging result”, he told Sky News shortly after the vote.
Many incumbent cabinet members are also expected to lose their MPs, including Jeremy Hunt, the first-ever British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ruth Davidson, former leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland, spoke of a “massacre”. Sky News reporter Beth Rigby described the predicted result as a “landslide”.
Liberal Democrats And Right-wing populists Weight gain
The Conservatives didn’t just lose seats to Labour. The Liberal Democrats also appear to have made significant gains at the expense of the Tories. According to the forecast, they will get 61 seats – so far only 11 seats have been secured. LibDem leader Ed Davey said his party would have its best result in a century.
It looks like a devastating defeat for the Scottish Independence Party, the SNP. According to the prediction, she can win only ten mandates. There were 48 seats in the last election. Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said it was “not a good evening” for the SNP, according to British news agency PA.
However, Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK Party will be happy. According to post-election polls, he has won 13 seats. With his surprise candidacy, Farage contributed significantly to the Conservatives’ poor results as he alienated voters on the right-wing fringe.
Sunak could not be caught during the election campaign
The predicted result is not surprising: polls have long predicted a clear victory for the Social Democrats. During the election campaign, Sunak, who faced a party split and corruption related to illegal election-time betting, could not be caught.
According to John Curtis, a renowned pollster from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, the clear results of the election were not primarily due to enthusiasm for Labour, but frustration with the previous government party. Sunak was his party’s third head of government in the last legislative term, which was characterized by economic stagnation and sharply rising living costs.
order for Government formation Is it Friday already?
Labor leader Starmer has steered Labor back to the political center in recent years after drifting too far to the left under his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. He took decisive action against anti-Semitic tendencies within his own ranks.
At the same time, the previous opposition leader remained vague on several areas, such as plans for a possible rapprochement with the European Union. Commentators compared her gentle demeanor to carrying a porcelain vase from China’s Ming Dynasty.
A change of government is imminent in Great Britain. Once the official final result is known, the transfer of power will take place. Starmer is expected to be welcomed by King Charles III later on Friday. Will be tasked with forming a government, then sets out his vision for Great Britain in a speech at Downing Street.
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