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Labor wins UK election in landslide

Leader Keir Starmer to be next PM, exit polls show

Jul 5, 2024 05:13 45

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Labour leader Keir Starmer to be Britain's next prime minister, according to exit polls released minutes after closing of the vote, BTA reported.

The Labor Party is on course for a huge majority after the country's general election yesterday, while Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are suffering historic losses.

According to exit polls, Labor will win 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons (the lower house of the British Parliament) and have a majority of 170 MPs, ending 14 years of Conservative rule.

Sunak's Conservative Party is projected to take just 131 seats out of 346 MPs before parliament is dissolved, its weakest showing in its history.

British voters have punished the Conservatives over a cost-of-living crisis and years of instability and infighting that have seen five prime ministers change since 2016, Reuters notes.

Yesterday's parliamentary elections took place against the dark background of intensifying economic problems, growing distrust in institutions and a shaky social structure, the Associated Press points out.

Bored British voters appear to have dealt Rishi Sunak's centre-right Conservative Party a historic defeat, throwing its ranks into disarray after being in power since 2010.

This is what British voters shared earlier with BTA after voting yesterday in the "Central Hall Westminster" polling station, about 150 meters from the Palace of "Westminster", where the Parliament buildings are:

"Hello, I voted Labor because I think the Conservative government has been in power for too long. There needs to be a change".

"I am the most uninteresting person you will meet at an election because I don't vote. It's all the same".

"Keir Starmer needs to get us back into the EU, damn fast. I am 77 years old and I know it well enough. This is".

"I think they are voting more than usual this time and I understand that Labor is going to win now. Most are not happy with the Conservatives and Brexit.

"This is not my government. I never voted for him. Our government has robbed us all the way. It sold all our assets. If we hold them back any longer, we'll be downright ruined. Kick the Tories. And I voted for our left".

"We need a change".

In a sign of the changing public mood and anger at the system, some smaller parties performed well, including the centrist Liberal Democrats and the Reform UK party. of Nigel Farage.

The exit poll was conducted by polling agency Ipsos and required voters in dozens of polling stations to fill out a ballot-like leaflet showing how they voted. It usually gives a reliable, though not completely accurate, prediction of the final result.

Full results will be announced in the coming hours.