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UK general election 2024: five key points
Keir Starmer’s Labour is heading for power with a large majority as voters punish Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives
Keir Starmer, the leader of the opposition Labour party, will take over from Rishi Sunak as UK prime minister with the most emphatic election victory by any British political party this century.
Individual constituency results overnight signalled Labour would comfortably win an overall majority on a modestly increased share of the vote, returning the left-of-centre party to government for the first time since 2010.
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