Rishi Sunak is delivering his parting statement as he prepares to head for Buckingham Palace where he will formally tender his resignation to the King.
Rishi Sunak bade an emotional final goodbye to Downing Street today after leading the Tories to their worst ever election result - with Keir Starmer waiting in the wings to take over.
'This is a difficult day, but I leave this job honoured to have been prime minister of the best country in the world.' Sir Keir is basking in a massive general election win following a brutal night for the Conservatives - but Labour's victory is being dubbed a 'loveless landslide' and a 'super meh-jority'.
Some newly-elected Labour MPs suggested the public will be thinking about overhauling Britain's voting system in the wake of the party's triumph, while Corbyn's allies swiped that Sir Keir had won 'by default' due to the dramatic collapse in Conservative support. The Lib Dems also inflicted massive pain on the Tories, racking up a record 71 seats as Reform leeched millions of votes and came second in around a hundred constituencies - but only scored four MPs of their own.
Earlier, Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps fell victims to a brutal Tory cull as Labour swept towards election victory. Rishi Sunak and Akshata Murty left 10 Downing Street following the traditional 'clapping out' by Downing Street staff and his special advisors.Mr Sunak flew back to London this morning from his Yorkshire constituency, where he conceded that Sir Keir has won and issued a grovelling apology in a shell-shocked speech.
Keir Starmer trumpeted his victory at a rally in central London after the party formally crested the 325 seats needed to control the CommonsLabour leader Sir Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria pictured arriving at the Tate Modern earlier on Thursday evening 'To the many good, hard-working Conservative candidates who lost tonight, despite their tireless efforts, their local records and delivery, and their dedication to their communities. I am sorry.''I will shortly be seeing His Majesty the King to offer my resignation as Prime Minister.'I have given this job my all, but you have sent a clear signal that the Government of the United Kingdom must change.
'And our United Kingdom is stronger too with the Windsor Framework, devolution restored in Northern Ireland, and our Union strengthened. 'This is a difficult day at the end of a number of difficult days. But I leave this job honoured to have been your Prime Minister. 'In Wales, the party's vote has actually fallen back by four points, while in England the party's vote is largely unchanged from 2019,' he wrote.
'The public will be talking about proportional representation and whether we need to have a debate about it. I've always said that we do need to have a debate about it.' 'The reality of course is Keir Starmer was holding the pass the parcel at the right time, when the Tories eventually imploded. So they've won by default, on a lower share of the vote than 2017.'
There are now no Tory MPs in Wales after Craig Williams, a former Tory aide to Mr Sunak, came third in Mongomeryshire as an independent after being embroiled in a gambling row over the date of the election. 'And now we can look forward, walk into the morning, the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day, shining once again, on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.'
Mr Shapps was the first confirmed Cabinet casualty and he hit out at the Tory 'soap opera' which had turned off voters. Ms Mordaunt, who is likely to have been a leadership contender if she had survived, said her party had taken a 'battering because it failed to honour the trust that people had placed in it'.
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A former Cabinet minister - who regarded their own significant majority as under threat - said Mr Sunak had 'knifed' Boris Johnson and would be remembered as the 'worst PM ever'. 'However, how many seats Reform will win is highly uncertain – our model suggests there are many places where they have some - but a relatively low - chance of winning.'
'But to watch the TV coverage it's almost comical. There's not a single representative on there from Reform UK, mainstream media are in denial just as much as our political parties.A Conservative spokesman said they had to wait for the full outcome, but added: 'If these results are correct it is clear that Starmer and Angela Rayner will be in Downing Street tomorrow.'
Former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock said the exit poll's landslide prediction was 'the greatest comeback since Lazarus'. Mr Sunak took a huge political gamble and shocked Westminster by triggering the election on May 22, rather than waiting until the Autumn as had been widely expected.Penny Mordaunt was among the Cabinet ministers washed away in the red wave
In a big moment, Mr Farage responded by ruling out standing as a Reform candidate, admitting he did not have time to put together a campaign. A subsequent grovelling apology did not prevent Mr Farage and opponents seizing on the blunder, which struck right at the heart of the Tory goal of shoring up the core vote among older generations.
Mr Sunak was memorably challenged on the issue during TV appearances, admitting he was 'incredibly angry'. But he was seen as taking far too long to withdraw support for candidates facing allegations. By yesterday, despite Mr Sunak's claim he was 'fighting hard for every vote', his close ally Mel Stride was effectively acknowledging the Conservatives would lose - an unprecedented step.
'That means we could have a MUCH better chance than polls have suggested. So if you haven't voted yet, now's the time to get out.'
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