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World’s Winningest Party Loses in Spectacular Style

First result of the night - Labour wins Houghton and Sunderland South

> The Liberal Democrats are on course for our best results in a century, thanks to our positive campaign with health and care at its heart.

I am humbled by the millions of people who backed us to both kick the Conservatives out of power and deliver the change our country needs.

- Ed Davey

Jacob Rees-Mogg suggests Tory defeat partly explained by decision to ditch Boris Johnson as leader

> Labour source in Islington suggests Jeremy Corbyn could be on course for a narrow victory – likely to be as few as 1500 votes in it

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First Scottish result: Labour wins Kilmarnock and Loudoun

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Defence secretary Grant Shapps beaten by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield

Justice secretary Alex Chalk beaten by Lib Dems

> People here and around the country have spoken and they’re ready for change, to the politics of performance, a return to politics as public service.

The change begins right here, because this is your democracy, your community and your future.

You have voted. It is now time for us to deliver.

- Keir Starmer

Lee Anderson re-elected as Reform UK MP for Ashfield

Labour retain Barnsley, defying exit poll

Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, has been re-elected as MP for Leeds West and Pudsey.

Iain Duncan Smith holds seat after leftwing independent Faiza Shaheen splits Labour vote

Nigel Farage elected as Clacton MP, winning a seat on eighth attempt

> Jeremy Corbyn easily beats Labour to be re-elected MP for Islington North as independent
Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, has been re-elected as MP for Islington North. After being banned from running as a Labour candidate, he ran as an independent, and easily beat his Labour opponent. Corbyn got 24,120 votes and Labour’s Praful Nargund got 16,874 votes.

Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington seat as independent MP after being expelled from Labour

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02:45

Reform claims third seat - Great Yarmouth

Farage claims Reform UK on course to be credible opposition to Labour in a rise that will 'stun all of you'

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03:02

Education secretary Gillian Keegan beaten by Lib Dems

Thangam Debbonaire, the shadow secretary for culture, media and sport, has lost her Bristol Central seat, becoming the second shadow cabinet minister to be beaten.

> BBC says its revised forecast suggests Starmer on course for majority of 160, with Labour on 405 seats and Tories on 154

Richard Tice, the former leader of Reform UK, has won Boston and Skegness from the Conservatives.

This makes Reform’s fourth win of the night – along with Clacton, Ashfield and Great Yarmouth.

> Richard Holden, who is chair of the Conservative party, has scraped a win in Basildon and Billericay by a mere 20 votes.

Just 20 votes!

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The Green Party has won its first seat of the night as co-leader Carly Denyer was elected as MP for Bristol Central in a major upset for Labour.

Denyer won 24,539 votes in the newly drawn constituency, easily beating Labour candidate and shadow frontbencher Thangam Debbonaire to second place with 14,132.

Johnny Mercer, the veterans minister, has lost his seat to Labour in Plymouth Moor View.

Penny Mordaunt, the leader of the Commons, has lost her Portsmouth North. Of all the cabinet ministers who have lost their seats so far, her defeat is probably the most significant because she was seen as one of the strongest candidates to replace Rishi Sunak as leader

Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps lose seats as Tories face ‘electoral armageddon’

Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, has scraped a win in Ilford North by just 528 votes.

> It’s turning into a great night for Plaid Cymru, who have won Ynys Môn (Anglesey) and Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) from the Tories.

The Caerfyrddin result means that Rishi Sunak’s chief whip, Simon Hart, has lost his seat. He came third behind Labour.

Greens’ co-leader Carla Denyer unseats Labour in Bristol Central

Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor, has held on to his Godalming & Ash seat.

Tory infighting begins as Rishi Sunak leads party to record-breaking defeat

George Galloway loses Rochdale seat to Labour months after by-election win

Sunak concedes Labour has won, and says he has congratulated Keir Starmer

> They said we wouldn’t get anywhere. They put out graphs they knew were lies in order to confuse local people.
They lied about me to mislead people.
But in just 4 weeks we achieved the same vote as a political party that has been around for over 100 years.
I’m so angry that the Labour Party has done this to Chingford & Woodford Green. They have returned Iain Duncan Smith to Westminster and should be ashamed.

- Faiza Shaheen

SNP lose fourth of six seats in Glasgow to Labour

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04:06

Former business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg defeated by Labour

It's official: Labour has crossed majority.

Lib Dems takes Surrey Heath, Michael Gove's former seat

UK general election: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak concedes defeat and says Labour has won | BBC News

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Jeremy Corbyn re-elected MP for Islington North as independent

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Labour has won all six of the seats in Glasgow, taking each of them from the SNP

‘I will have your back’: Keir Starmer wins north London seat

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Keir Starmer Speaks Ahead Of Likely UK Election Win | 10 News First

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British people ‘have chosen change’, says first Labour MP to win seat

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The Conservatives have suffered a wipeout in Wales. They won 14 seats in 2019. This time they have won none, an echo of 1997 when Tony Blair came to power and the Welsh Tories were left with no representation at Westminster.

> Blimey again! Green win Waveney Valley! That's three definite seats and possibly four, if they hold Brighton Pavilion. It'll most likely put them equal to Reform UK.

Keir Starmer's election victory speech in full: 'We did it!'

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> What we are seeing is a European multi-party politics emerging in the traitjacket of a two-party system.

There are clearly complex forces at work: Labour is set to win a huge majority but two shadow cabinet ministers have already lost their seats. Jeremy Corbyn has pulled off an unlikely victory and the scale of the win in Bristol Central just underlines the volatility of an increasingly complex electorate.

But our first past the post electoral system is incapable of accommodating such a nuanced reality and is clearly buckling under the pressure of the underlying multi-party reality.

- Compass spokesperson Neal Lawson

LibDems win Henley and Thame

Liam Fox, the former defence secretary and international trade secretary, has lost his Somerset North seat to Labour.

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05:13

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross loses to SNP

Transport secretary Mark Harper loses Forest of Dean to Labour

The Green party has won its fourth seat, after Siân Berry, a former co-leader of the party, won Brighton Pavilion. This is the seat previously held by Caroline Lucas, the Greens’ first MP.

Scottish Labour ‘confident of majority’ as SNP faces Westminster wipeout

James Cleverly has retained his seat in Braintree for the Conservatives. The home secretary appeared to take a swipe at Reform in his acceptance speech, criticising those who present “simple and thin solutions to challenging and complex problems”.

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05:39

Wikipedia: 2024 United Kingdom general election and Results of the 2024 United Kingdom general election by constituency

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Shabana Mahmood, shadow justice secretary, wins Birmingham Ladywood

David Cameron’s old seat of Witney had been a Liberal Democrat gain. So has Maidenhead, the former seat of Theresa May.

US: Disney heir joins other Democrat backers to pause donations until Joe Biden steps aside

Former PM Liz Truss loses her South West Norfolk seat to Labour by 630 votes

🥬 would have won this too.

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06:05

Tories completely wiped from Inner London for the first time since the 1870s.

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06:18

I did not know that Jeremy Corbyn ran as independent: Islington North (UK Parliament constituency) § Election results

I guess this shows that I do not follow British politics that closely.

He is one of the candidates supported by We Deserve Better.

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@MartinSleziak don't blame yourself. Even many of his constituents were not aware of that.

Even two weeks ago, when interviewed, they said they would vote for Labour and want Corbyn to win.

Jeremy Corbyn re-elected in Islington North after expulsion from Labour

> Corbyn’s campaign faced the difficulty of overcoming the long association between him and the Labour party, with many voters in his north London constituency seemingly unaware he was not the party’s candidate in the election. Facing an uphill battle without Labour’s canvassing data or infrastructure, Corbyn’s campaign relied on volunteers from across the UK coming to support door-knocking efforts.

His victory ends a tradition of Islington North voting for Labour since a 1937 byelection.

Local Labour members resign to campaign for Corbyn

Labour loses three seats to pro-Palestinian candidates

Remainder: Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Alex Chalk, Gillian Keegan, Johnny Mercer, Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps were among senior Conservative figures to lose their seats on a tumultuous night.

> Labour’s victory was not without hitches, however. Three seats fell to independents running on pro-Palestinian tickets, the party failed to prevent Jeremy Corbyn winning as an independent, and the selection fiasco in Chingford and Woodford Green saw the party’s candidate Shama Tatler and former candidate Faiza Shaheen just 79 votes apart having split the vote to allow Iain Duncan Smith to win

> The Green Party of England and Wales have achieved their ambition of four MPs, with victories in target seats in Bristol. Both co-leaders Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay will be in parliament

> Ed Davey’s Liberal Democrats are set to be the third biggest party in the House of Commons, with at least 68 seats in the new parliament. It is a huge increase for a party who performed dismally in 2019.

> On a bad night for the SNP in Scotland the party so far has only won 8 MPs, losing 37 seats so far. Labour made significant gains in Scotland

> Sinn Féin will be the largest party in Northern Ireland for the first time

Sinn Féin becomes NI's largest Westminster party

> Plaid Cymru have won 4 seats in Westminster

> [D]uring our 14 years in power, unfortunately, we did not do enough to take on the legacy we’d been left. In particular things like the Human Rights Act that made it very difficult for us to deport illegal immigrants, and that is one of the reasons I think we’ve ended up in this situation we are now.

- Truss

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> With several potential contenders losing their seats including Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt, the field [for replacing Sunak] may be narrower than expected. James Cleverly, Suella Braverman, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch may be the most likely names in the frame.

France opinion: France can argue later – now everyone who cares about our democracy must unite to keep the far right out

UK opinion: Leadership drama? Shotgun marriage with Reform? The Tory party’s next move will define its future

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07:04

> WE DID IT!

Bristol, we made history💚

Thank you so much to the people of Bristol Central who have elected me as their MP

As this city's first Green MP, I promise to be a strong, independent voice for Bristol's values, pushing the govt to be bolder on the issues that matter

- Carla Denyer

> [Our representation] will push [Labour] to be braver on the areas where we don’t think they’re going far enough. For example, in housing.

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07:49

Labour: Starmer is expected to appoint whole Cabinet today

Watch: Jeremy Corbyn pulls off shock win in Islington North

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Surprise winners and losers in UK general election, from Greens to Reform UK

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I would not expect Jacob Rees-Mogg to be out of Parliament. His constituency changed from North East Somerset to North East Somerset and Hanham.

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@MartinSleziak wasn't he defeated?

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I mean the constituency where he stood.

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Zelenskiy congratulates Starmer on win and thanks Sunak for support

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English is not my first language, I guess that might sometimes obscure what I'm trying to say.

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@MartinSleziak no. I got what you said.

> What was key for me was to show that you know, we can have some fun. You don’t have to take yourself too seriously, as long as you take the voters concern seriously.

Every time we did a stunt, we had a message. Falling off a paddleboard was about sewage. When I came down that slide with kids and their families enjoying the half-term, we were talking about the mental health crisis for children young people.

- Ed Davey

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11:23

Keir Starmer formally appointed as prime minister by King Charles

Ed Davey sings Sweet Caroline as Lib Dems celebrate historic election

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Trump Congratulates BFF Nigel Farage on MAGA Election Surge

Rishi Sunak leaves Downing Street | Full speech

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No worries this time, for Sunak's wife brought an umbrella.

> The king received in audience the right honourable Sir Keir Starmer MP today and requested him to form a new administration. Sir Keir accepted his majesty’s offer and kissed hands upon his appointment as prime minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

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12:06

Democrats start moving to Harris as Biden digs in

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Keir Starmer officially becomes UK prime minister after audience with the King | BBC News

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Jonathan Pie: 'It's 50 Shades of Beige.' Meet Britain's New Prime Minister. | NYT Opinion

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Keir Starmer's first speech as prime minister

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US: Why American politicians are so old

Nigel Farage Celebrates Major New MAGA Breakthrough

Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Night

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New Commons will have highest ever number of comprehensive-educated MPs, report says

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Diane Abbott to be mother of the House in new parliament

> And Jeremy Corbyn, Abbott’s friend and ally who was re-elected last night as an independent, having been thrown out of Labour, has narrowly missed being father of the House (its longest-serving male MP). As PA Media reports, the Tory Edward Leigh, 73, MP for Gainsborough, pipped him to the title, because he was sworn in moments before Corbyn after the June 1983 election.

Why Any Biden Replacement Besides Harris Would Face A Major Fundraising Hassle

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14:39

Rachel Reeves confirmed as Britain's first woman chancellor

Opinion: Hop, skip, jump and enchant the electorate – the Ed Davey doctrine was a stroke of genius

> Here is the latest projection from Ifop for France’s 577-member national assembly:

Far right National Rally: 210-240

Left wing New Popular Front: 170-200

Macron’s allies: 95-125