The Labour Party is set to win by a landslide in the United Kingdom’s general election held on Thursday. “Sir Keir Starmer and the Labour Party are on course for a massive landslide general election victory, with Rishi Sunak and the Tories facing wipeout,” The Daily Telegraph reported, citing the exit poll.
Early projections indicate that the Starmer-led Labour Party could win around 410 seats, giving him a majority of 170 in a 650-seat Lower House. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are expected to get merely 131 seats, a far cry from the 365 they got in 2019.
If the exit poll proves correct, the Labour Party will return to power for the first time after 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer, who replaced Jeremy Corbyn as the Labour leader in 2020, managed to turn around the party despite the colossal mess left behind by his predecessor.
The BBC reported the exit poll:
Labour is set to win a general election landslide with a majority of 170, according to an exit poll for the BBC, ITV and Sky.If the forecast is accurate, it means Sir Keir Starmer will become prime minister with 410 Labour MPs – just short of Tony Blair’s 1997 total.The Conservatives are predicted to slump to 131 MPs, their lowest number in post-war history.The Liberal Democrats are projected to come third with 61 MPs.The Scottish National Party will see its number of MPs fall to 10 and Reform UK is forecast to get 13 MPs, according to the exit poll.The Green Party of England and Wales is predicted to double its number of MPs to two and Plaid Cymru are set to get four MPs. Others are forecast to get 19 seats.
The early results do not come as a surprise. Opinion polls ahead of the vote suggested that the Conservatives were on course to a historic defeat. If the trend shown in the exit poll continues, Labour will likely head for one of the largest majorities in parliament. Conversely, the Conservatives are expected to suffer one of their worst-ever defeats.
The Conservatives failed miserably on the issue of Brexit following the 2016 referendum. Eight years after the people of Britain voted to take back control of their borders from the European Union (EU), the country has been swarmed by illegal migrants from continental Europe.
Nigel Farage’s anti-establishment UK Reform Party is expected to get 13 seats.
It is the first UK general election in which voters need a photo ID to vote in person. “This is the first general election where voter ID will be required, after new rules were introduced in 2023,” Sky News UK reported. “There are 22 types of identification you can use, including a passport or driving licence.” This is a fairly common practice across Europe. I voted in last month’s EU elections by showing my German photo ID card.
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