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Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt, however, retains his seat.

More Cabinet ministers have lost their seat in this election - 10 so far - than at any other election. There has previously been only 12 Cabinet ministers losing their seats since 1974.

Reform UK chairman Richard Tice has taken Boston and Skegness from the Conservatives.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has his wife have arrived for their constituency declaration

Great Yarmouth had been a three-way race between Reform, Labour and Tories - and Reform have come out on top. Candidate Rupert Lowe wins the party's third seat of the night, beating second-placed Labour by 1,426 votes.

The new forecast:

PM-elect Keir Starmer retains Holborn and St Pancras

The percentage drop of the Tory vote is so far worse than any party since the 1835 General Election.

Breaking News: Nigel Farage is elected as an MP for the first time "This Labour Government is going to be in trouble very quickly. We're going after them", says the Reform leader. It's his eighth attempt - Farage has failed to become an MP on seven occasions before now. He gets 21,225 votes...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has won in Islington North as an Independent. It's the first Independent candidate win since the 2001 General Election.

Not me.

Lee Anderson is elected as the first Reform MP:

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.

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."

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.