The polls have closed in the UK 2024 General Election, with Ipsos UK’s exit poll forecasting a Labour majority of 170 which would see Sir Keir Starmer become prime minister. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Okay, well you're looking at Big Ben now and we are in these final seconds when everyone in the whole country frankly is waiting with
00:06Bated breath to work out what may lie in store
00:12Rishi Sunak called this election desperately hoping that
00:17He would be able to
00:20Get a majority and has he got it the exit poll is here
00:26It is predicting a labor landslide a labor majority of
00:31170 it has the Conservatives on a hundred and thirty-one seats and labor on
00:36410 the Lib Dems are projected to win 61 seats reform on 13 with the SNP
00:43Expected to secure 10 that is a simply
00:47astonishing result
00:49record-breaking
00:51history-making
00:53The Tories did have you know, they've dropped to the lowest number of seats since
00:591832 I think looking at that number that is an astonishingly low figure just to capture for a moment the scale of labors achievement
01:06They've taken a Tory majority of notionally over 90 according to boundary changes and we've gone in a huge swing in the other direction
01:14Potentially to a labor majority if this exit poll is right of 170 the SMP has had a poor night
01:20The Lib Dems look like they've had a very good night and reform has come out of nowhere. Really, you know only
01:27Coming to stand in this election standing in most seats
01:31unexpectedly
01:32Clearly Rishi Sunak didn't think that was going to happen. And yet that has really clearly had a huge impact