UK Election Results 2024: Rishi Sunak Concedes, Successor Keir Starmer Says Public Ready for Change.

New Delhi: Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer delivered a storming victory speech Friday morning after the party swept the UK general election, declaring the country “gets its future back after 14 years (of a Conservative Party government)”. A relieved-looking Prime Minister-elect said, with a grin and to loud cheers, “We did it. You campaigned for it, fought for it, voted for it, and now it has arrived. And it feels good, to be honest.”UK Election Results 2024

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Keir Starmer has led Britain’s Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and will become prime minister. The first leader from the center-left party to win a U.K. national election since Tony Blair. Who won three in a row starting in 1997.UK Election Results 2024

Like Blair, who refashioned the party as “New Labour” in the 1990s, 61-year-old Starmer led Labour to victory over Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party in Thursday’s election after dragging the party towards the political middle ground.

Liz Truss, the shortest-serving prime minister in British history, has lost her seat by less than 700 votes, becoming the latest prominent Conservative figure to be punished by voters.

Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, lost the seat he had held since 2015 to Liberal Democrats candidate Max Wilkinson by more than 8000 votes.
Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, lost by a considerable majority to the Liberal Democrats in Chichester. The Conservatives had held the seat for 100 years.UK Election Results 2024

Jacob Rees-Mogg, a key figure in the Vote Leave campaign who served as Brexit opportunities minister under Boris Johnson. Lost his seat to Labour challenger Dan Norris. His seat had been abolished in a boundary review and replaced with a new constituency. Including a suburb of Bristol historically supportive of Labour.UK Election Results 2024

The Conservative Party suffered a stunning defeat after 14 years in government. Bringing a brutal end to the premiership of Rishi Sunak. Who said he had called the Labour leader to congratulate him and concede the election.