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 Labour victory had long been predicted — it held a double-digit polling lead over the Conservatives for more than 18 months — the magnitude of the Tory defeat will reverberate through Britain for months, if not years.

Keir Starmer, the Labour leader who is set to become prime minister, has promised a fiscally prudent, center-left government “in the service of working people.

Starmer, a low-key human rights lawyer who only entered Parliament in 2015, it was a remarkable vindication of his four-year project to pull the Labour Party away from the left-wing policies of his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, and rebrand it as a plausible alternative to the increasingly erratic rule of the Conservatives.

The exit polls projected defeat for Jeremy Hunt, who served as chancellor of the Exchequer; Grant Shapps, who served as defense minister; and Steve Baker, a prominent figure on the party`s right.