Keir Starmer on course to be most powerful British prime minister since Tony Blair.
LONDON — The Labour Party is heading for a landslide victory in Britain’s general election, consigning the ruling Conservatives to their worst result in history, according to the official exit poll.
As voting ended across Britain at 10 p.m. local time, the poll projected a stunning Labour majority in the House of Commons of 170 seats, the largest held since Tony Blair’s famous win in 1997.
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…PM Rishi Sunak…is widely expected to resign in the coming hours.
The exit poll predicts the Tories will collapse to just 131 seats — the lowest total in the party’s illustrious history, comfortably beating its previous nadir of 156 back in 1906.
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By contrast the poll puts Labour on a mighty 410 seats — almost two-thirds of the House of Commons’ 650 total.
Such numbers would make Starmer the U.K.’s most powerful leader since Blair, with complete command of parliament and confident of winning a second term in five years’ time.