General Election 2024 exit poll predicts Sir Keir Starmer is heading for Downing Street

Sir Keir Starmer is on course for Downing Street as an exit poll indicated his Labour Party will sweep to power. The Labour leader will become prime minister on Friday with a commanding majority in Parliament, the exit poll for broadcasters suggested.

Rishi Sunak’s term as Prime Minister looks set to end in electoral disaster, with the Conservatives forecast to endure heavy losses, reports PA. Overall, the poll is predicting Labour will win with 410 seats, while the Conservatives are set to take a major hammering with only 131 seats.

The Lib Dems are set to have 61 seats, Reform 13, SNP 10. That will give Labour a majority of 170. Plaid Cymru in Wales is predicted to double its number of seats to four.

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If accurate the poll would be the lowest number Tory MPs on record. It marks a dramatic turnaround since the 2019 general election, when Boris Johnson won the Tories a healthy 80-seat majority and Jeremy Corbyn led Labour to its worst result since 1935.

The exit poll suggests Labour is on course for 410 seats, with the Tories reduced to 131.

It will mean a Labour prime minister in No 10 for the first time in 2010 and the Conservatives facing a possible civil war as the fight for the future direction of the party and the battle to potentially replace Mr Sunak gets under way.

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