Outgoing British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said early this morning that the British people had issued a "sobering verdict" and recognized that the Labor Party had won the general election and could form a government and replace the Conservatives at the head of the country, for the first time in 14 years.
The Labor Party convincingly won yesterday's parliamentary elections, confirmed by the incomplete official data of exit poll projections, and their leader Keir Starmer will be the new British Prime Minister.
This result ends almost a decade and a half of Conservative Party rule, during which five prime ministers led the country.
Sunak said he took responsibility for his party's election loss and called Labor leader Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.
In the elections yesterday, the British elected 650 deputies who will be in the Parliament for the next five years.
As reported by the BBC with a large number of seats counted, Labor led by Kier Starmer won at least 392 seats, which is enough to have a majority in Parliament.
Exit polls published last night indicated that after more than a decade in power, Sunak's Conservatives are on course to lose their seats in the lower house of the British Parliament, down to 131. That would be the Tories' worst result in the party's two centuries.
Labor leader Keir Starmer, who will be the first prime minister from that party in 14 years, said his government would "put country first, party second".
He said that with the mandate comes great responsibility and that his government will be focused on "national reconstruction".
Starmer is expected to go to King Charles III later today to get his approval to form a new government.
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