- Labour Wins Landslide As Sunak Concedes Defeat
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is set to be named as the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after his party won a landslide victory.
Addressing a tumultuous crowd, he began by simply saying “thank you”, to tremendous applause.
“We did it”, he says. “You campaigned for it, you fought for it – and now it has arrived. Change begins now.”
Sir Keir added that “across our country, people will be waking up to the news – relieved that a weight has been lifted”.
“A burden finally removed from the shoulders of this great nation.”
He says now the UK can “look forward again [and] walk into the morning”.
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“The sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day. Shining once again in a country with an opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”
The Labour leader, soon to be prime minister, says that this mandate comes with a “great responsibility”.
Meanwhile, Rishi Sunak has conceded defeat in the general election.
Speaking after winning his seat, the outgoing Prime Minister said it had been a “difficult night” for his party and he took “responsibility” for their catastrophic set of results.
“The Labour Party has won this general election and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory,” he said.
Minutes later, Labour secured the 326 seats required for a majority in the House of Commons.
Results are still being counted, but the exit poll has put Labour on course to win 410 seats – more than double it won at the last election and giving it a majority of 170 in the House of Commons.
That is just shy of the historic majority of 179 won in 1997 by Sir Tony Blair, Labour’s last elected prime minister.
The results have seen the nation firmly turn its back on the Tories, with the once dominant party reduced to just 131 MPs – its lowest number in history, the exit poll predicts
Mr Sunak became the youngest prime minister of the modern era when he took over the Conservative Party in 2022.
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In 2014, he was selected as the Conservative Party candidate in the Yorkshire seat of Richmond – previously held by former Tory leader William Hague – before the following year’s general election.
After Liz Truss’s resignation sparked a Tory leadership race, he was appointed as leader of the party and prime minister in October 2022, the first Hindu and British Asian to reach the position in UK history.
