After 14 long years, the UK Conservative Party was crushed in its worst electoral defeat in 200 years.
When the polls closed and Sky News were able to release the results of the exit poll (usually a strikingly accurate indicator of how the election will go), election coverage took an X-rated turn.
Source: BBC
Sir Keir Starmer is the UK's new prime minister, after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide general election victory.
The Conservative Party suffered a huge collapse after a tumultuous 14 years in power, which saw five different prime ministers run the country.
Rishi Sunak - the outgoing PM - accepted responsibility for the result and apologised to defeated colleagues during a brief statement outside a rainy 10 Downing Street. He said he would resign as party leader in the coming weeks.
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The result marks a stunning reversal from the 2019 election when Labour, led by the veteran left-wing politician Jeremy Corbyn, suffered its worst electoral defeat in almost a century.On the other side, Robert Buckland, a former Conservative minister who lost his seat, described it as "electoral Armageddon" for the Tories.
