Labour landslide as Tories on course for historic defeat – and Reform surge: your guide to the night ahead
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In today’s newsletter: As the exit poll lands, here’s how election night will play out hour by hour
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Good evening. According to the exit poll that landed just after the polls closed at 10pm, 14 years of Conservative-led government are over – and Labour have won in a landslide.
Even though it has been widely predicted in the polls throughout the campaign, it looks like the scale of the victory will be remarkable – a majority of around 170, very close to Tony Blair’s 1997 landslide, while the Tories are on course for the worst result in their history. Perhaps the other big story of the night, if it holds up: the kind of showing for Reform that Nigel Farage has been dreaming of, far outmatching anything Ukip or the Brexit party ever achieved.
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