Labour is on course for a huge victory in the British election
An exit poll points to a collapse in the Tory vote
WITH VOTING now over in Britain, widespread predictions of an electoral earthquake appear to have been right. According to an exit poll conducted for the country’s main broadcasters, published at 10pm BST, the Labour Party is on track to win a historic landslide victory, taking back swathes of seats in the Midlands, the north of England and Scotland. The poll suggests that the party will win 410 out of 650 seats in the House of Commons. That would give Sir Keir Starmer, the Labour leader, a thumping majority of 170, just shy of the landslide won by Sir Tony Blair in 1997.
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