The Labour Party secured a dominant win in the U.K.’s general election early on Friday and remained on track to gain a supermajority in the British parliament, a result which has been deemed as the start of a new era in British politics after 14 years of Conservative rule.
Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks to his supporters after Labour secured a majority.
With the counting of results still ongoing, the BBC’s tracker showed Labour has secured more than the 326 seats needed for a majority in the Parliament, while exit polls suggest it could be on track to win 410 seats.
Shortly after Labour secured its majority, the party’s leader Keir Starmer—who will become the U.K.’s next Prime Minister—told his jubilant supporters: “Change begins now,” adding his party is ready to “restore Britain to the service of working people.”
A few minutes before Starmer’s speech, outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivered a concession speech to his supporters and said the British people have delivered a “sobering verdict” and called it a “difficult night” for the Conservative Party.
Exit polls project the Conservatives, or Tories, are on track to win 131 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons, the worst electoral performance in the party’s history.
This is a developing story