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  1. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Defence Secretary is gone The Government disintegrates. Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has been booted out as an MP by the voters of Welwyn. Labour's Andrew Lewin takes the seat with 41% of the vote.
  2. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    PM-elect Keir Starmer retains Holborn and St Pancras, with 18,884 votes. However, his vote is down 17% from 2019. He's making his victory speech. "Change begins in this community", says the man who will become PM tomorrow. "This is your democracy."
  3. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Latest score (seats): Labour: 67 Conservatives: 7 Liberal Democrats: 3 Reform UK: 1
  4. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Reform leader Nigel Farage is arriving at the count in Clacton-on-Sea. Is he about to become an MP for the first time? What drama.
  5. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Meanwhile Labour Party deputy leader Angela Rayner - will she be Deputy PM? - makes her victory speech as she remains Ashton-under-Lyne MP with 15,573 votes. Reform's Robert Barrowcliffe finishes second.
  6. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    The Monster Raving Looney Party candidate in a wacky costume lets out a hilarious "Thank you!" as he wins just over 200 votes in Chessington. The seat is held by Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey, who is making his victory speech. He got 25,870 votes.
  7. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    The first Scottish seat has declared: Labour have taken Kilmarnock from the Scottish nationalists SNP. The SNP are predicted to lose 38 seats.
  8. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Brexiteer George Galloway and former friend of Saddam Hussein, leader of the Workers' Party of Great Britain, has finished second to his Labour candidate in Rochdale. So that's another seat for Labour.
  9. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    PM-elect Keir Starmer is all smiles as he arrives to a round of applause at his constituency count - Holborn and St Pancras - in North London. The former Head of the Crown Prosecution Service is clearly delighted with the way things are going.
  10. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Yeah. Most people don't give a shit about the Greenies. In this country the only two seats they are set two win will likely be Brighton Pavilion and maybe a Bristol constituency.
  11. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Breaking News: Reform win their first ever seat Reform's Lee Anderson, who defected from the Tories, has won Ashfield, with 17,062 votes. The Tories finish fourth. Farage's party have their first seat.
  12. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Rachel Reeves set to become first female Chancellor of the Exchequer as 14 years of Tory rule end Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells the BBC that "people are crying out for change" and "have voted for that in huge numbers". She's cautious about the exit poll, but says if the night unfolds...
  13. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay are the two Green leaders. Denyer is the first openly bisexual person to lead a British political party. During the election campaign, a YouGov poll found that 53% of Green Party supporters did not recognise a photo of Denyer.
  14. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    The exit poll tracker predicts Starmer will win the election around 4:30am.
  15. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    The first constituency to declare its result that voted Remain in 2016 is also the first that hasn't gone to Labour - the Liberal Democrats have taken it from the Conservatives. Labour only finished fourth. It's interesting that Leave constituencies are voting for Labour and Remain...
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    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Britain turns red How each constituency is predicted to vote
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    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Nine seats out of 650 have declared so far at 1:25am with all of them going to Labour. Later, results will come in much quicker. Liz Truss - Britain's shortest serving PM - is expected to lose her South West Norfolk seat.
  18. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Reform UK deputy leader Dr David Bull speaks to Sky News as results pour in... "We're only four years old"
  19. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    Swindon South result an ominous sign for Tories Professor Sir John Curtice BBC polling expert In the first Conservative-held seat to be declared tonight, we expected the Conservatives to lose 25 points, Labour to gain four and Reform gain 17. In fact, the Conservatives lost 25 points, Labour...
  20. Blackleaf

    UK General Election to be on 4th July

    That doesn't surprise me. Boston, on the east coast of England, is full of immigrants and the locals there are fed up of it.