Key Points
- Sir Keir Starmer said: ‘The work of change begins immediately, but have no doubt, we will rebuild Britain.’
- No final result in the UK General Election on Friday after multiple recounts failed to verify the votes in a seat in the Highlands
- ‘We did it’: Keir Starmer will become the next prime minister as Labour sweeps to power with huge majority
- SNP suffers huge losses in Scotland as a resurgent Labour takes dozens of Scottish seats
- Tories in catastrophic defeat as several Cabinet ministers lose their seat and the party is reduced by two-thirds
- Nigel Farage among Reform UK candidates elected
Keir Starmer is the new UK prime minister as Labour trounces the Tories and the SNP to return a huge majority in the House of Commons.
The SNP is set to be reduced to fewer than 10 seats – down from 48 in 2019 – as John Swinney pledges “soul searching” over “very poor” results.