UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Friday voters “have spoken and they are ready for change” as an exit poll points to a landslide win for his party in the British election. Labour is on course to win about 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons and the Conservatives 131, according to an exit poll.UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said on Friday voters “have spoken and they are ready for change” as an exit poll points to a landslide win for his party in the British election.
“I think we’re going to have to get used again to relatively stable government, with ministers staying in power for quite a long time, and with government being able to think beyond the very short term to medium-term objectives,” he said. The exit poll suggested Labour was on course to win about 410 seats in the 650-seat House of Commons and the Conservatives 131.
In a sign of the volatile public mood and anger at the system, some smaller parties picked up millions of votes, including the centristand Farage’s Reform UK. Farage won his race in the seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, securing a seat in Parliament on his eighth attempt, and Reform has won four seats so far.