Live: Exit poll predicts landslide victory for Labour in General Election
Sir Keir Starmer is on course to be the UK's next prime minister as an exit poll indicated a landslide Labour victory.
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The SNP are on course to drop to 10 seats in Scotland, an exit poll for the General Election suggests.
The party won 48 seats at the last election in 2019, but would loosen its Westminster grip after almost a decade if the prediction comes to fruition.
Labour is on course for a landslide, according to the exit poll projection, with 410 seats.
The Conservatives are set for 131 seats.
The exit poll also forecasts the Liberal Democrats on 61 seats, Reform UK on 13 and The Green Party on two.
In Scotland, the SNP are expected to secure 10 seats with Plaid Cymru in Wales on four.
It would be the lowest number Tory MPs on record.
Polls have closed across the country in the 2024 General Election and Sir Keir Starmer is on course to be the UK's next prime minister as an exit poll indicated a landslide Labour victory.
Shortly before polls closed, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: "To the hundreds of Conservative candidates, thousands of volunteers and millions of voters: Thank you for your hard work, thank you for your support, and thank you for your vote."
Deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden has been knighted, while former deputy prime minister Therese Coffey has been made a dame.
The two Conservatives have been given top honours alongside three other party colleagues, with ex-defence secretary Ben Wallace and former chief whip Julian Smith both made knight commanders of the Order of the Bath, while former Scottish secretary Alister Jack has been made a knight of the Order of the British Empire.
Former deputy speaker Dame Eleanor Laing and ex-MP Craig Mackinlay, who has battled sepsis which cost him his hands and feet, have also been given peerages.
Former Cop26 president and Cabinet minister Sir Alok Sharma has also been made a peer.
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Labour veterans Dame Margaret Beckett, Harriet Harman and Dame Margaret Hodge will also take seats in the House of Lords.
Sir Keir Starmer's nominations in the dissolution honours include former Parliamentary Labour party chairman John Cryer.
Rishi Sunak has rewarded his right-hand man Liam Booth-Smith with a peerage, announced less than an hour before polls closed in the General Election.
Lord Booth-Smith, who had been Mr Sunak's chief of staff in Downing Street, was included in the Prime Minister's dissolution honours list.
Former prime minister Theresa May and former chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady have been given peerages in the dissolution honours list.
Early on Thursday Mr Sunak voted in his Richmond constituency.
He waved at reporters as he and his wife Akshata Murty arrived hand-in-hand at the Kirby Sigston Village Hall, as he hopes to be returned to Parliament as the MP for Richmond and Northallerton.
Sir Keir was also joined by his wife, Victoria, as he visited a polling station in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency.
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