Afternoon. All eyes are on the UK election, where the Labour party leader, Keir Starmer, said the “sunlight of hope” is bathing Britain again after his party won a landslide victory, bringing a crushing end to 14 years of Conservative rule. Starmer is expected to become prime minister after Rishi Sunak conceded but held onto his seat in Richmond & Northallerton.
The victory resulted in a Scottish National party wipeout in Scotland, with the party possibly left with as few as 10 MPs, down from 48. Labour will also be happy to win back Rochdale from George Galloway by the slimmest of margins – 1,400 votes – only four months after Galloway won a byelection. But Keir Starmer’s party lost in Islington North to former leader Jeremy Corbyn, who ran as an independent after being expelled from Labour.
