Labour wins UK general election as Keir Starmer says: â\x80\x98We did it! Change begins nowâ\x80\x99 â\x80\x93 latest live news | General election 2024
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Labour wins UK general election as Keir Starmer says: â\x80\x98We did it! Change begins nowâ\x80\x99 â\x80\x93 latest live news | General election 2024


Keir Starmer: We did it!

Labour has won the 20204 general election.

Keir Starmer is speaking now:

â\x80\x9cWe did it! You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived. Change begins now. And it feels good, I have to be honest. Four and a half years of work changing the party. This is what it is for: a changed labour party, ready to serve our country, ready to restore Britain to the service of working people.â\x80\x9d

The Guardianâ\x80\x99s results tracker has Labour on 326 seats so far: a majority.

Keir Starmer, leader of Britainâ\x80\x99s Labour party, reacts as he speaks at a reception to celebrate his win in the election, at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, 5 July 2024.
Keir Starmer, leader of Britainâ\x80\x99s Labour party, reacts as he speaks at a reception to celebrate his win in the election, at Tate Modern, in London, Britain, 5 July 2024. Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
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Compass, the leftwing group committed to pluralism, has said tonightâ\x80\x99s election results show the first past the post voting system is not fit for purpose. Compass spokesperson Neal Lawson said:

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.

Lawson also said the early results pointed to a Gallagher index score (a measure of disproportionality) of around 23, which he said suggested â\x80\x9cthis election could be the most disproportionate we have ever seenâ\x80\x9d.

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Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross loses seat to SNP

Outgoing Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has lost to the SNPâ\x80\x99s Seamus Logan in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East.

Logan won with 13,455 votes.

Ross stood in place of David Duguid, who was barred from standing by party chiefs due to ill health. Mr Ross announced he would resign as party leader following the election after u-turning on his decision not to stand as an MP.

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Adrian Ramsay, the co-leader of the Green party, gains Waveney Valley from the Conservatives.

Carla Denyer, the other Green party co-leader, was earlier declared winner of Bristol Central.

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.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) July 5, 2024
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The BBC has broadcast some revised forecast numbers for the final results. Here are the figures (with the original exit poll figures in brackets).

Labour: 408 seats (410)

Conservatives: 136 (131)

Lib Dems: 66 (61)

SNP: 8 (10)

The Tory figures is now much closer to the 10pm exit poll figure. At one point the BBC projection was saying they could be up to 156.

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Conservatives lose all their MPs in Wales

Steven Morris
Steven Morris

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.

The final result came in Monmouthshire where David TC Davies, who was the secretary of state for Wales, lost his seat.

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SNP leader John Swinney: Iâ\x80\x99m deeply sorry

Lisa O\'Carroll
Lisa O\'Carroll

Scotlandâ\x80\x99s first minister, SNP leader John Swinney, has apologised to his party colleagueswho did not retain their seats in the House of Commons.

He told the Press Association that the result was â\x80\x9cvery damaging and toughâ\x80\x9d.

â\x80\x9cIâ\x80\x99m very sorry to the colleagues who have lost their seats and will lose their seats in the course of this evening,â\x80\x9d said Swinney who is only two months into the job.

First Minister of Scotland John Swinney reacts as he talks to media following the result of the election count in Perth, Scotland, Britain on 5 July 2024. Photograph: Russell Cheyne/Reuters

â\x80\x9cYou donâ\x80\x99t recover from those tough times in an instant, and weâ\x80\x99ve not managed to recover from them during this election campaign and Iâ\x80\x99m deeply sorry that thatâ\x80\x99s the situation that we face,â\x80\x9d he said.

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Israelâ\x80\x99s president, Isaac Herzog, has congratulated Keir Starmer, and said he looks forward to working with him â\x80\x9cto deepen the close friendship between Israel and the United Kingdomâ\x80\x9d.

I send my warmest congratulations to @Keir_Starmer. As he prepares to enter Downing Street as Prime Minister, I look forward to working together with him and his new government to bring our hostages home, to build a better future for the region, and to deepen the close friendshipâ\x80¦

— ×\x99צ×\x97×§ ×\x94רצ×\x95×\x92 Isaac Herzog (@Isaac_Herzog) July 5, 2024
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DUP\'s Ian Paisley on track to lose North Antrim

Rory O\'Connell

Ian Paisley is on track to lose the once-impregnable Democratic Unionist party (DUP) bastion of North Antrim, capping a devastating election for the party.

Jim Allister of the hardline Traditional Unionist Voice seems certain to take the seat in a seismic shock that all but assures Sinn Féin will overtake the DUP as Northern Irelandâ\x80\x99s biggest Westminster party.

Allianceâ\x80\x99s Sorcha Eastwood took the DUP Lagan Valley stronghold vacated by its former leader, Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, in the wake of ، offence charges.

The Ulster Unionist Robin Swann is expected to oust the DUPâ\x80\x99s Paul Girvan from South Antrim, slashing the number of DUP MPs from eight to five. Sinn Fein is expected to hold its seven seats.

The DUPâ\x80\x99s one solace is that its leader, Gavin Robinson, fended off a challenge from Allianceâ\x80\x99s Naomi Long in East Belfast. But losing three seats, including a citadel held by the Paisley family since 1970, is a shattering outcome â\x80\x93 and a legacy of Brexit. The partyâ\x80\x99s gyrations on the Irish Sea border alienated centrist supporters, who defected to Alliance and the UUP, and harder line unionists, who switched to the TUV.

Reform originally backed the TUV but upon becoming leader Nigel Farage endorsed several DUP MPs, including Paisley, who were described as â\x80\x9c، buddiesâ\x80\x9d.

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Esther McVey, formerly the minister without portfolio, has held on in Tatton.

The full results for Tatton, according to PA media:

Esther McVey (C) 19,956 (38.44%)
Ryan Jude (Lab) 18,820 (36.26%)
Oliver Speakman (Reform) 5,948 (11.46%)
Jonathan Smith (LD) 4,614 (8.89%)
Nigel Hennerley (Green) 2,571 (4.95%)
C maj 1,136 (2.19%)
Notional 16.31% swing C to Lab
21.20% boundary change
Electorate 75,978; Turnout 51,909 (68.32%)
2019 notional: C maj 19,281 (34.81%) - Turnout 55,394 (73.33%)
C 31,732 (57.28%); Lab 12,451 (22.48%); LD 8,966 (16.19%); Green
2,046 (3.69%); Brexit 199 (0.36%)

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Plaid Cymru celebrates its \'best ever\' result in general election

Steven Morris
Steven Morris

Plaid Cymru have hailed a â\x80\x9cstunningâ\x80\x9d general election result after retaining its two incumbent MPs and gaining two others.

Leader Rhun ap Iorwerth said:

Despite the tough context of an unprecedented Labour wave, this is the partyâ\x80\x99s best ever result in a general election - representing the greatest proportion of seats won.

This result shows that Plaid Cymru is the clear alternative to Labour in Wales and our focus now shifts to putting forward a vision which more people than every can get behind at the Senedd Election in 2026.

Plaid also won four seats at the last general election. But since then Wales has lost eight of the 40 seats it had and, on the basis of how people voted in 2019, Plaid would have only won two of the new seats. Two of the seats they have won tonight, Yns Môn and Caerfyrddin.

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Kwasi Kwarteng has compared the Tories to the Egyptian god Osiris, saying it has suffered deaths before, and will â\x80\x9crise againâ\x80\x9d.

Writing in the Telegraph, the former (and very, very short-lived) chancellor of the exchequer writes that todayâ\x80\x99s results will be â\x80\x9cdisastrousâ\x80\x9d for the Conservatives. But, he says, despite a number of disasters over the last 200 years (polls predict this will be the worst in the partyâ\x80\x99s history), he believes that the Conservatives will â\x80\x9crise againâ\x80\x9d, thanks to the â\x80\x9cfeebleness of Labourâ\x80\x9d and the â\x80\x9cvolatility of todayâ\x80\x99s voting publicâ\x80\x9d.

Interestingly, Osiris, if Plutarch is to be believed, was eventually ripped into 14 pieces, put back together, and remained in the underworld forever afterwards.

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