Sir Keir Starmer has been elected the prime minister after achieving a landslide victory for the Labour Party at the general election. After a meeting with King Charles, the Labour leader gave his first speech as PM, promising to "restore service and respect" to politics with his government. Here are the key events from a dramatic general election. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:30Richard Mayor Fullobson has been duly elected to serve as Member for the South West constituency.
00:36I do hereby declare that Lee Anderson is duly elected.
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01:13And I do hereby declare that Jeremy Corbyn is duly elected to serve as a Member of Parliament for the Islington North constituency.
01:22I therefore do hereby declare that Nigel Paul Farage is duly elected as the Member of Parliament for the Clacton constituency.
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01:49Democracy is never wrong.
01:52The Conservative Party has taken a battering because it failed to honour the trust that people have placed in it.
02:01Rishi Sunak, Conservative Party, 23,059.
02:06The Labour Party has won this general election and I have called Saqir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.
02:16Jacob William Rees-Mogg, Conservative Party candidate, 15,420.
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02:37Sorry to bother you from ITV News, how are you feeling following that result?
02:41I have just already given an interview, thank you very much.
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03:21I will shortly be seeing His Majesty the King to offer my resignation as Prime Minister.
03:27To the country, I would like to say first and foremost, I am sorry.
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04:21You must be exhausted.
04:23I am having to get to grips with everything straight away.
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05:03I have just returned from Buckingham Palace where I accepted an invitation from His Majesty the King to form the next government of this great nation.
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