UK PM Rishi Sunak Concedes Defeat, Congratulates Labour Party Keir Starmer ~ OsazuwaAkonedo #Conservatives #elections #Keir #Labour #Rishi #Starmer #Sunak #UK https://osazuwaakonedo.news/uk-pm-rishi-sunak-concedes-defeat-congratulates-labour-party-keir-starmer/05/07/2024/ #Breaking News Published: July 5th, 2024 Reshared: July 5, 2024 7:04 am Labour Party candidate in the 2024 general elections, Keir Starmer has been officially
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00:00Labour Party candidate in the 2024 General Elections, Keir Starmer has been officially declared winner after the Labour Party secured more than the required 326 seats in the House of Commons.
00:09Labour Party majority winner of the UK Parliamentary seats means Keir Starmer will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
00:15Labour won the election with 410 seats, with the Conservatives of Rishi Sunak securing 144 seats.
00:22Rishi Sunak in a broadcast accepted the feat and says he has called Starmer to congratulate him even before the election results and winner were officially declared and announced.
00:30Shortly after winning his seat in Holborn and St Pancras, Starmer says, the change begins right here, it is time for us to deliver.
00:37In the highest-profile Conservative losses so far, Defence Secretary Grant Sharpe's an ex-leadership candidate pending modern tools to Labour, according to BBC reports.
00:45Reform UK leader Nigel Farage becomes an MP for the first time, winning Clapton, while the parties Richard Tyres and Lee Anderson also win.
00:53Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington North as an independent, and Labour's John Ashworth loses to an independent.
01:00George Galloway of the Workers' Party loses the seat he won earlier this year.
01:03Caledonia wins for the Green Party in Bristol Central, while the SNP is forecast to go from 43 seats before the election to just 6, BBC added in its report.
01:12Ahead of the exit poll, Rishi Sunak stated, and in quote, the only way to stop a high-tax Labour supermajority is to vote Conservative today.
01:19A vote for Reform or any other party will hand Keir Starmer a blank cheque for generations.
01:24Polls close at 10pm, don't forget to bring your ID.
01:27You have 4 hours to stop a Labour supermajority that will put up taxes for the rest of your life.
01:32Polls close at 10pm, don't forget to bring your ID.
01:36If Labour are handed a blank cheque, they will use their supermajority to tax you more for the rest of your life.
01:41Labour would scrap exams and tax working families by £2,094, 2 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
01:47Keir Starmer would demolish our Green Belt, 3 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
01:52Labour wants to tax working families by £2,094, 4 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
01:58Keir Starmer would tax you just for driving, 5 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
02:02Labour would throw open our borders, 6 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
02:07Labour would change the voting system to stay in power for the rest of your life, 7 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
02:13Keir Starmer would tax your family home, 8 hours to stop the Labour supermajority.
02:17Labour would increase taxes on every part of your life, including your death, 9 hours to stop the Labour supermajority,
02:23which he soon abstained during pre-election campaigns.
02:26Keir Starmer said in reaction during pre-election campaigns and after he won the exit poll does.
02:31Thank you, Hoban and St Pancras, for putting your trust in me again.
02:35Change begins right here. I've changed the Labour Party.
02:38If you put your trust in me by voting Labour, I will change the country.
02:41Today, Britain's future is on the ballot.
02:44Tomorrow, don't just send a message, send a government.
02:47Vote Labour, Keir Starmer wants and in quote.
02:50BBC reported that after Keir Starmer won the exit poll,
02:53the Labour Party elected Dominica who is due to be the next Prime Minister of UK.
02:57Keir Starmer said as presented by Martin the way BBC reported it.
03:00The report reads, in quote does, still addressing supporters in central London.
03:04Keir Starmer tells them, thank you truly, you have changed our country.
03:08After reaching the required 326 seats to win the general election,
03:12he says, a mandate like this comes with a great responsibility.
03:15He adds that the task of a Labour government is nothing less than
03:19renewing the ideas that hold our country together.
03:22We have to return politics to public service.
03:24He goes on, adding his government will show it can be a force for good.
03:28BBC report reads further that,
03:30One feature of tonight's results is how the advices that the Conservatives
03:33secured in leave voting areas after the EU referendum,
03:36most notably in 2019, have been entirely lost.
03:39Compared with 2019, support for the Conservatives is down by 12 points
03:43in seats where less than 45% voted leave.
03:46In contrast, support for the party is down by 27 points
03:49in seats where more than 65% voted leave.
03:52However, the pattern of losses in Conservative support since 2015
03:56before the EU referendum is more or less the same everywhere.
03:59Support for the party is down by 12 points.
04:01Compared with 2015, in seats where less than 45% voted leave
04:05while it is down by 9 points where more than 65% voted leave.
04:09Can I start by thanking the returning officer
04:12and all the team who have been working here at the count
04:15and at the polling stations today.
04:17You make our democracy possible.
04:19I'd also like to thank the police who have ensured that we can conduct
04:22this ballot here in North Yorkshire but also across the country in safety.
04:27On this difficult night, I'd like to express my gratitude
04:30to the people of the Richmond and North Allerton constituency
04:33for your continued support.
04:35Since I moved here a decade ago,
04:38you have made me and my family feel so at home
04:42and I look forward to continuing to serve as your Member of Parliament.
04:46It is an enormous privilege.
04:48I'm grateful to my agent and constituency team
04:51and I congratulate my opponents here
04:54on the energetic and very good-natured campaigns
04:57that they have run.
04:59The Labour Party has won this general election
05:02and I have called Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.
05:06Today, power will change hands in a peaceful and orderly manner
05:10with goodwill on all sides.
05:12That is something that should give us all confidence
05:15in our country's stability and future.
05:18The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight.
05:22There is much to learn and reflect on
05:25and I take responsibility for the loss.
05:28To the many good, hard-working Conservative candidates
05:31who lost tonight despite their tireless efforts,
05:34their local records of delivery
05:37and their dedication to their communities,
05:39I am sorry.
05:41I will now head down to London
05:43where I will say more about tonight's result
05:45before I leave the job of Prime Minister
05:47to which I have given my all.
05:49I will then return here to my family's home
05:52and I look forward to spending more time with you all
05:55in the weeks, months and years ahead.
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