Note – Reform has won 4 seats.
Quicker seat counts at BBC – refresh page
Telegraph is posting good results now
Tories on course for a bloody night, exit polls indicate a Labour landslide.
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When Canada’s Tories faced electoral wipeout
It seems all but certain that the Conservative Party will face a historic wipeout in the coming UK General Election. While we often see comparisons with New Labour’s landslide in 1997, which pushed the Tories out of power for 13 years, there is an even more striking precedent – namely, the fate that befell their Canadian counterparts just over 30 years ago.
Final MRP poll shows Labour set to win biggest majority since 1832
Labour is on track to win the largest majority of any party in modern history amid evidence that voters are rejecting Rishi Sunak’s plea not to hand Sir Keir Starmer a landslide victory.
The final large-scale YouGov poll of the campaign finds that the Conservatives will be reduced to just 102 MPs, losing more than 70 per cent of the seats the party won five years ago.
Labour is expected to win 431 seats, giving Starmer a landslide majority of 212 — surpassing Tony Blair’s 1997 victory and making him the most successful leader in electoral terms. If confirmed on Friday it would also be the largest majority for any single party since 1832.
Why they elected Sunak is beyond me.
Conrad Black: Britain’s Conservatives deserve to lose
The election in the United Kingdom next week will mark another stumbled step in the descent of Britain into unprecedented political absurdity. It will bring in the sixth prime minister in eight years, a performance rivalling Third and Fourth Republic France, when General de Gaulle said that he often could not remember the name of the current head of the French government, so rapid was their turnover. (He was the only person in the history of France who served in cabinets in three different Republics.) The only time in British history when there has been such a frequent rotation of prime ministers was between 1827 and 1835, (Liverpool, Canning, Goderich, Wellington, Grey, Peel, and Melbourne, but Liverpool governed for 15 years, Grey for four, and Melbourne for six, and Canning died in office; all of them were statesmen of considerable or even great stature). The present cavalcade has been a broadening shambles, unlike anything in modern British history. It is almost certain to continue, as there is no indication that the incoming prime minister, Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, possesses what will be required to bring Britain out of this nosedive. The only leader in the history of the Labour Party capable of winning consecutive full terms in office was Tony Blair, and that was largely because Margaret Thatcher and John Major had left the country in such excellent condition. Starmer has no such good fortune and there is no indication that he possesses any comparable aptitude to govern.
Shoot illegal migrants, say Reform campaigners
A campaigner for Nigel Farage has told voters that illegal migrants should be used for army “target practice” and that mosques should be turned into pubs.
In the latest scandal to hit Reform UK, undercover reporters from Channel 4 recorded an activist in Clacton advocating shooting people arriving by boat and describing Rishi Sunak as a “f***ing P***”.
They also filmed a senior aide to the Reform leader putting forward a vision for the party in government, saying “our police officers will be paramilitaries” and that “we’re going to bring back the noose”.
The West provoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, claims Farage
Reform leader says the ‘ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the EU’ gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war
The West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine, Nigel Farage has said.
The Reform UK leader said that the “ever-eastward expansion of Nato and the European Union” gave Vladimir Putin a reason to justify war.
The comments in a BBC Panorama interview with Nick Robinson echo arguments made by Donald Trump, the former US president and friend of Mr Farage.
The ghosts of Canada’s 1993 Conservative wipeout hang over Britain’s election campaign
Rural Alberta may be a continent away from the faded British seaside town of Clacton-on-Sea, but Nigel Farage believes both places will be remembered for starting political revolutions.
Already a familiar face to Britons, Farage has injected some drama into an otherwise staid British general election that the Labour Party under leader Keir Starmer appears well on its way to winning.
Farage, instead, has set his sights on the Conservatives, transforming his political party, Reform UK, into a rising political force that appears to be siphoning off their votes.
Farage’s Reform UK Party Overtakes Sunak’s Conservatives: Poll
Europe’s marked shift towards populism appears to be accelerating, as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party has surpassed Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives in an opinion poll for the first time, signaling a potential shift in the British political landscape as the nation approaches the July 4 general election.
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Britain is an anachronism as the world goes right
Some of us have vindictively long memories. I am one such person. So let me summon up just two stories from the not-so-distant past that have some bearing on our unhappy present.
In 2009 the Dutch politician Geert Wilders was barred by Jacqui Smith, the then Labour home secretary, from entering the UK. In a letter explaining her decision, Smith (or rather her Home Office lawyers) wrote that Wilders’s ‘statements about Muslims and their beliefs would threaten community harmony and therefore public safety in the UK’. Perhaps Smith was partly influenced by the possibility that if Wilders came to the Houses of Parliament and gave his speech (in which he was expected to show his film Fitna) thousands of angry Islamists might decide to take to the streets in Westminster. Something which has, of course, never happened since.
Conservative wipeout: the lesson Canada’s 1993 election offers to the Tories
Thirty-one years ago, the Progressive Conservatives lost all but two seats and spent years puzzling over how to rebuild
A party unspooling in its waning days of power, a prime minister plumbing news depths of unpopularity, the looming threat of an electoral “nightmare scenario” and a newly empowered Reform party hellbent on destroying the national Conservatives.
Canada’s 1993 federal election fundamentally altered the country’s political landscape and shattered its national conservative movement, forcing leaders to spend a decade puzzling over how to rebuild a broken party.
A World-Historical Transformation Is Taking Place in Britain, Yet Few Have Noticed
A world-historical societal transformation is taking place before our very eyes, and yet few have taken notice. Britain, the erstwhile leader of the Western world and the foundation and source of English-speaking civilization, is in its last days as a free society, and will soon become an Islamic state. Yet despite the mountains of evidence that this transformation is taking place, many will still deny that it is happening at all. They may not even admit it when it overtakes them personally.
Only 16% of Brits would fight to defend France
Only 16% of Britons would fight in a war to defend France, according to new UnHerd polling.
The survey, conducted by FocalData, polled 1,012 UK voters about foreign policy and defence, asking them which nations they would be willing to defend in an armed conflict. As Second World War veterans travel to Normandy to mark today’s 80th anniversary of D-Day, the UnHerd findings reveal that British gratitude is in short supply.
What Clacton tells you about how the white working-class have been left behind
At nine o’clock in the morning, everybody in Clacton-on-Sea seems to be leaning on something. A walking stick. A frame. A shopping trolley.
Passersby in the bracing sea air are few. But the one busy place is the local Wetherspoons, the Moon and Starfish, where Nigel Farage had a customary pint on Tuesday. This marked his first day campaigning as Reform leader as well as the party’s parliamentary candidate for Clacton. Residents and holidaymakers are following his lead, tucking into fried breakfasts and early drinks.
Poll: Half of Britons Want a Freeze on Almost All Legal Migration
The time for empty talk about net migration being brought down to the “tens of thousands” is over. After it was revealed that more than 1.2 million people arrived legally into Britain last year, around half of Britons have said they want to see a freeze on all “non-essential” immigration.
Farage Returns as Reform UK Leader: “I’ve Done It Before. I’ll Do It again.”
Richard Tice is stepping aside as leader of Reform UK to allow Nigel Farage to take the reins.
The former UKIP and Brexit Party leader, who is largely credited with pushing ‘Leave’ over the finish line in the 2016 Brexit referendum, said “there is a rejection of the political class going on in this country in a way that has not been seen in modern times,” and that he is coming back to lead a political “revolt.”