Live Updates: Labour Party Is Set for Landslide Win in U.K. Election
Britain`s Labour Party was projected on Thursday evening to win a landslide election victory, sweeping the Conservative Party out of power after 14 years, in a thundering anti-incumbent revolt that heralded a new era in British politics. A nationwide exit poll conducted for the BBC and two other broadcasters indicated that Labour was on course to win around 410 of the 650 seats in the British House of Commons, versus 131 for the Conservatives. K. , an insurgent, anti-immigration party, was projected to win 13 seats, a remarkable performance that appeared to come at least partly at the expense of the Conservatives. The exit poll, which accurately predicted the winner of the last five British general elections, confirmed a mutinous electorate, thoroughly fed up with the Conservatives after a turbulent era that spanned austerity, Brexit, the Covid pandemic, the serial scandals of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the ill-fated tax-cutting proposals of his successor, Liz Truss. While a...