Rishi Sunak Concedes Defeat In UK Polls As Keir Starmer Labour Gets Majority

London/Internet/Hyderabad, July 5 (Maxim News): British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded defeat on Friday as his Conservative Party was on course for one of its worst election defeats and the Keir Starmer-led Labour Party hurtled towards a landslide victory in the historic UK election.

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Official results showed the Labour Party has won enough seats to have a majority in the UK Parliament and will form the next government.  The Labour Party is estimated to have a majority of around 160 seats in the House of Commons.  The party had won 326 of the 650 seats by 5 am Friday as counting continued. 

The country’s first British Indian-origin Prime Minister comfortably held on to his own Richmond and Northallerton seat in northern England with 23,059 votes but failed to turn things around for his party at a national level after 14 years in government.

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Sunak was joined by his wife Akshata Murty as his future as a member of Parliament was decided and he chose to use his acceptance speech to also admit his party’s defeat in winning another term in government. 

“The Labour Party has won this general election and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory, said Sunak, acknowledging the ‘sobering verdict’ handed to his party.  (Maxim News) 

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