Labour Win Landslide Victory in UK Election
Sir Keir Starmer will become British prime minister with Labour having won at least 326 seats in parliament after a general election landslide victory.
Sir Keir said, "We did it. Change begins now ... We are ready to restore Britain to the service of working people."
The Labour Party passed the majority threshold of 326 at around 5 a.m. just after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded defeat, having clung on to his own seat.
Around 175 seats out of 650 have yet to be declared.
Mr. Sunak has led the Conservatives to a defeat which could see them win their lowest number of seats in the history of the party.
In 1997 the Tories were reduced to 165 seats, but their worst ever result was in 1906 when they won just 156 seats.
Mr. Sunak, who held on to his own seat, said at the count, "The British people have delivered a sobering verdict...and I take responsibility for that."
He said Labour had clearly won the election and he had already rung Sir Keir and congratulated him, and he also apologised to all the Tory candidates who lost.
Reform UK saw a surge in its vote, helping it to win four seats with leader Nigel Farage, in Clacton, and party chairmain Richard Tice, in Boston, both being elected.
The Green Party won more than a million votes nationwide and won two more seats, ousting Labour's Thangam Debonnaire in Bristol Central.
The Liberal Democrats are set to win 56 seats while in Scotland the SNP lost heavily, with Labour gaining 20 seats off the Scottish nationalists.
The SNP's leader at Westminster, Stephen Flynn said the party's candidates had been overcome by the "Starmer tsunami" and he said it was no reflection on them as people.
Other key results saw Jeremy Corbyn, who was ejected from the Labour Party after refusing to accept a key report on antisemitism under his leadership, retained his Islington North seat as an independent.
In her speech after losing Portsmouth North to Labour's Amanda Martin, she said: "Tonight, the Conservative party has taken a battering because it failed to honour the trust that people had placed in it. You can speak all you like of security and freedom, but you can't have either if you are afraid."
"Afraid about the cost-of-living or accessing healthcare, or whether the responsibility you shoulder will be recognised and rewarded. That fear steals the future, and it only makes the present matter and that is why we lost," she added.
She also warned, "Our renewal as a party and a country will not be achieved by us talking to an ever smaller slice of ourselves but being guided by the people of our country."
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps lost his seat in Welwyn Hatfield, as did Justice Secretary Alex Chalk in Cheltenham and Education Secretary Michelle Keegan in Chichester.
The Chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, hung on to his seat in Godalming & Ash by just 891 votes.
Mr. Hunt described it as a "crushing victory" and said the Tories needed to have the "humility" to ask themselves what they had done wrong.
He wished the Labour government well and said he hoped they would be able to make the reforms to the National Health Service which, "the Conservative Party often finds difficult to do."
In a rare setback for Labour, shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth lost in Leicester South to an independent, Shockat Adam, who stood on a strongly pro-Palestinian platform.
This will be updated further.
PA Media contributed to this report.
