Keir Starmer will likely be Britain's next prime minister with his Labour Party projected to win a massive majority in a parliamentary election, an exit poll on Thursday indicated, while Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are forecast to suffer historic losses.
The poll showed Labour would win 410 seats in the 650-seat parliament, ending 14 years of Conservative-led government.
Sunak's party were forecast to only take 131 seats, down from 346 when parliament was dissolved, as voters punish the Conservatives for a cost-of-living crisis and years of instability and in-fighting which has seen five different prime ministers since 2016.
The centrist Liberal Democrats were predicted to capture 61 seats while Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage's right-wing populist Reform UK was forecast to win 13.