Keir Starmer will be Britain's next prime minister and his Labor Party is on course to win a landslide majority in the general election, an exit poll has shown, while Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are predicted to suffer historic losses.
An exit poll showed Labor would win 410 seats in the 650-seat parliament, ending 14 years of Conservative-led government, reports Reuters.
Sunak's party was forecast to take just 131 seats, down from 346 when parliament was dissolved, as voters punish the conservatives for the cost of living and years of instability and conflict that have seen five different prime ministers since 2016.
Sunak stunned Westminster and many in his own party by calling an early election in May, with the Conservatives trailing Labor by around 20 percentage points in opinion polls.
He hoped the gap would narrow as it has traditionally been the case in British elections, but the gap did not budge in a fairly disastrous campaign.
Sunak's early departure from D-Day commemorations in France to do a TV interview angered veterans, and even those in his own party said it raised questions about his political acumen.
While polls have shown little enthusiasm for Labor leader Starmer, his simple message that it's time for change appears to be resonating with voters, according to Reuters.
Unlike France, where Marine Le Pen's far-right party scored a historic victory in last Sunday's election, a disillusioned British public appears to have moved to the centre-left instead.
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