It’s their first election win since 2005
The Labour party has won a landslide victory in the 2024 general election.
Just before 5am on Friday morning, Labour reached the threshold of 326 seats needed to win a majority.
Since then dozens of seats have continued to be won by the party, with Labour on course for a landslide win of 410 seats.
The Tories have suffered catastrophic losses, and the surge in Reform popularity seems to have hit the party hard in some of its safest seats.
Senior Tories such as Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps and Gillian Keegan have all lost their seats.
After holding onto his seat in Richmond (Yorks), Rishi Sunak conceded the election, saying he had called Starmer to congratulate on his win.
In a victory speech shortly afterwards, Starmer told supporters in London: “We did it, you campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it and now it has arrived, change begins now.”
He added that the UK is once again experiencing the “sunlight of hope”.
“The sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day. Shining once again on a country with an opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”
This is the first election Labour have won since 2005, and by Friday lunchtime Keir Starmer will be prime minister.
Elsewhere on election night, the Lib Dems made huge gains and are on course to win some 66 seats, more than five times its performance in 2019.
Meanwhile, Reform have won four seats across the UK, including a win for Nigel Farage in Clacton and for party chairman Richard Tice in Boston.
It’s been a successful night for the Green Party as well, who have won three seats, the first time they’ve ever won multiple seats at a general election.
In Scotland, it’s been a harrowing night for the SNP, who have seen their vote collapse.
The party have only won eight seats at the time of writing, and have haemorrhaged seats to Labour.
In Wales, the Tories have been wiped out, with 27 Welsh seats being won by Labour, four by Plaid Cymru and one going to the Lib Dems.
There was also a win for Jeremy Corbyn, who was re-elected as MP for Islington North as an independent candidate.
In Northern Ireland,Sinn Féin is now the largest Westminster party with seven seats.
Their MPs will not take their seats in the House of Commons due to a long-standing policy of abstentionism.
