While you were asleep, here's what happened in the general election

Labour has won a landslide victory at the general election.

Sir Keir Starmer will become the Prime Minister after winning a majority of more than 100 seats. The Conservatives have faced a crushing defeat across the country with senior party figures including Liz Truss, Jacob Rees Mogg and Penny Mourdant losing their seats.

The Tories have been wiped out in Greater Manchester after losing in Altrincham and Sale West for the first time in nearly 100 years. Labour have won almost every seat in the city-region - including George Galloway's in Rochdale - with the Lib Dems winning two.

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Reform UK came second, pushing the Conservatives into third in huge swathes of the country - including many seats in Greater Manchester. As it stands, the party has won four seats in Parliament including in Clacton where Nigel Farage has been elected MP.

The Conservatives have hardly any MPs left in the North West after losing the Tory stronghold of Macclesfield by more than 9,000 votes. It comes less than five years after Boris Johnson led the Tories to victory, turning many of Labour's northern heartlands blue.

Rishi Sunak held onto seat in North Yorkshire, but speaking after the results were declared in his constituency, he conceded that Labour had won the general election. At an event in London, Sir Keir said that the UK was experiencing the 'sunlight of hope'.

Here is everything that happened overnight at the general election.

10pm

Polling stations across the UK closed.

An exit poll is published predicting a Labour landslide with the party on course for 410 seats and the number of Conservative MPs reduced to a record low of 131.

It also forecast the Liberal Democrats on 61 seats, Reform UK on 13 and The Green Party on two.

In Scotland, the SNP was expected to secure 10 seats with Plaid Cymru in Wales on four.

11pm

The first constituency result is announced, with Labour’s shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson holding Houghton and Sunderland South in Tyne and Wear.

She said in her victory speech: “Tonight the British people have spoken, and if the exit poll this evening is again a guide to results across our country as it so often is, then after 14 years the British people have chosen change.”

12am

Former Conservative justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland loses his seat in Swindon South to Labour candidate Heidi Alexander.

Sir Robert takes 12,070 votes while Ms Alexander wins 21,676 in the Wiltshire constituency.

2am

Lee Anderson becomes Reform UK’s first elected MP after winning the seat in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire.

Reform wins 17,062 votes ahead of Labour with 11,553.

3am

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps loses to Labour in Welwyn Hatfield.

Conservative Justice Secretary Alex Chalk loses in Cheltenham to Liberal Democrat candidate Max Wilkinson.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn beats his old party to hold his seat in Islington North and become an independent MP.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is elected in Clacton, winning a UK parliamentary seat at his eighth attempt.

Speaking in Clacton after his win, Mr Farage said his party’s performance in the General Election was “truly extraordinary”.

He added: “There is a massive gap on the centre-right of British politics and my job is to fill it.”

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan is beaten by the Liberal Democrat candidate Jess Brown-Fuller in Chichester.

Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer beats Labour’s Thangam Debbonaire in Bristol Central in the party’s first victory in the election.

Reform UK chairman Richard Tice wins in Boston and Skegness to become the party’s fourth MP.

4am

Penny Mourdant, leader of the House of Commons, is beaten by Labour in Portsmouth North.

Veterans minister Jonny Mercer is defeated by Labour in Plymouth Moor View.

Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer is beaten by the Liberal Democrats in Ely and East Cambridgeshire.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak holds his seat in Richmond and Northallerton.

Speaking after the result was announced, Mr Sunak says it has been a “difficult night” and that the Labour party have won the General Election.

The Prime Minister says he takes “responsibility” for his party’s loss, has called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory and will say more later in London.

Senior Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg loses his seat in North East Somerset and Hanham to Labour.

5am

Labour wins the General Election after reaching the required 326 seats.

Sir Keir Starmer says “we did it” as he delivers a speech at a victory rally in central London to rapturous applause.

The Labour leader says: “We did it. You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived – change begins now.

“It feels good, I have to be honest. Four-and-a-half years of work changing the party, this is is what it is for – a changed Labour Party ready to serve our country, ready to restore Britain to the service of working people.

“And across our country, people will be waking up to the news, relief that a weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed from the shoulders of this great nation.

“And now we can look forward, walk into the morning, the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day, shining once again, on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”

6.45am

Former Prime Minister Liz Truss loses her seat of Norfolk South West. Labour win by a majority of just 630 votes.