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🔶 The Liberal Democrats won a huge number of seats in former Conservative stronghold areas, where voters were determined to vote tactically to get the Tories out

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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 ELECTION SPECIAL: Labour landslide unpicked

🗳️ PoliticsHome reporters and ConHome's Henry Hill unpick Labour's historic victory and give live reactions from results night

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🌹 Keir Starmer is now Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, telling voters the new Labour government will "deliver change, to restore service and respect to politics"

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🚨 LIVE: UK General Election results as they happen Two results announced so far: 🔴 Houghton & Sunderland South – LAB 🔴 Blyth and Ashington – LAB Reform UK came in second place ahead of the Conservatives in both seats

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Some other key exit poll takeaways: 🆙 Lib Dems forecast to secure 61 MPs, up from 11 in 2019 📉 A collapse in SNP support has been predicted, leaving them with only 10 MPs 🆙 Nigel Farage's Reform UK are forecast to win 13 seats in a very strong result for the new party

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🤯 According to the exit poll, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is very likely to lose his seat tonight, along with Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer Other senior Tories Mark Harper, Mel Stride, Steve Barclay and Penny Mordaunt were all "too close to call"

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🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨 Labour: 410 Conservatives: 131 Liberal Democrats: 61 SNP: 10 Reform: 13 Green: 2 Plaid Cymru: 4 Other: 19

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Some other key exit poll takeaways: 🆙 Lib Dems forecast to secure 61 MPs, up from 11 in 2019 📉 A collapse in SNP support has been predicted, leaving them with only 10 MPs 🆙 Nigel Farage's Reform UK are forecast to win 13 seats in a very strong result for the new party

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🤯 According to the exit poll, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is very likely to lose his seat tonight, along with Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer Other senior Tories Mark Harper, Mel Stride, Steve Barclay and Penny Mordaunt were all "too close to call"

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🚨 EXIT POLL 🚨 Labour: 410 Conservatives: 131 Liberal Democrats: 61 SNP: 10 Reform: 13 Green: 2 Plaid Cymru: 4 Other: 19

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💩 The majority of seats the Liberal Democrats are expected to win are among the constituencies worst affected by the sewage spill crisis

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🚗 It wasn't long ago that newspapers invited readers to predict election results by offering big prizes such as cars to the winners

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↙️ The South West hasn't featured much in discussions about the Tories' biggest headaches heading into 4 July 😬 But the party faces hemorrhaging territory to both Labour and the Liberal Democrats next week

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↔️ As a "proud-European" Ed Davey's politics are a world apart from those of Nigel Farage

👇 But the Lib Dem leader tells @zoecrowther.bsky.social that Farage winning a seat in Parliament would be the "best way" to confront him

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📊 Activists on the doorstep say there are too many undecided voters for dramatic MRP polls predicting a Tory wipeout to be trusted

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🤪 The last week of the General Election could see a more “unpredictable” and “scattergun” approach from the Conservatives, according to one political expert

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🌱 Eight members of the Green Party claim to have been expelled from the party for expressing gender critical views

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📝 Poems written by the public during the 1950 General Election demonstrated a fair bit of malice towards politicians – not too dissimilar from today

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🚨 OUT NOW 🚨 Sunak goes down swinging

👀 Baroness Kate Fall, the IfG's Alex Thomas and consultant Laura Dunn join PoliticsHome to discuss the final stretch before polling day

PLUS Election Diaries with Thinks Insight & Strategy

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🏹 I went home to Nottinghamshire to report back from 'New Build England' Voters there feel they were promised a better life, but that these promises have been broken Here is what residents of the Tory-held Gedling and Newark constituencies had to say 👇

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🏗️ "There’s lots of housing being built, but we are lacking infrastructure, schools and dentists in particular...”

👇 Voters living in modern housing developments in Nottinghamshire told @zoecrowther.bsky.social why they felt Conservative promises have been broken

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🏘️ Alex Deane, the Tory candidate for Finchley and Golders Green, said a lack of housebuilding was making younger voters have little faith that politics can help improve their lives

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❌📱 Labour has described a clip of Keir Starmer talking about the removal of Bangladeshi migrants from the UK as "misinformation"

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Political betting is dominating the final stretch of this campaign

It has featured in British politics for well over a century, write Philip Cowley & Matthew Bailey

In 1994, then Lib Dem President Charles Kennedy bet on his party underperforming — and won

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😬 Labour has suspended their candidate Kevin Craig, who – alongside two Tory candidates – is being investigated over alleged gambling A Labour spokeswoman said the party had "acted immediately" and "upholds the highest standards" for candidates

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💷 The Conservative Party has withdrawn its support for one of Rishi Sunak's closest allies, Craig Williams, who placed a bet on the date of the election

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💭 Concerns about immigration are not the only defining issues in the battle for Dover And Deal

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💔 "There is no heart to this town any longer, it’s been ripped out." 👇 A deep dive into the Swindon South constituency with Thinks Insight & Strategy

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🙋‍♂️ A well-known YouTuber tried to stand in Islington North under the name Jeremy Corbyn. But it wouldn't have been the first time candidates shared the same name

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🌹🔶 Some Labour supporters are actively campaigning for the Lib Dems in an effort to get rid of the Tories

👇 @zoecrowther.bsky.social reports from North Norfolk

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🤑👇 PoliticsHome explores the battle for political donors at the Hurlingham Club annual Black and White Ball

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😬 The head of campaigning for the Conservative Party has taken a leave of absence His wife, a Conservative candidate, is being looked into by the Gambling Commission over an alleged bet relating to the timing of the General Election

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🌹 Labour candidate Jovan Owusu-Nepaul has said he is running against Nigel Farage in Clacton “for every Black and brown person in the country”

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🇨🇦👀 Parts of the Tory party won't want to hear it, but the Canadian example shows that uniting the UK right could be their most likely path back to power

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📮 There are warnings that a "chaotic and broken" postal system will stop voters overseas from taking part in the General Election

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📱 Growing on TikTok was not an original part of Reform UK's strategy, but party figures believe they are now reaching an audience of young people overlooked by the Tories

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📍 The constituency titles in place for this election will be the longest and most cumbersome in any British general election

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🇬🇧🇨🇦 The Tories are currently heading for a cataclysmic defeat on 4 July, but it might not be as bad as what happened to the Canadian Conservatives in 1993 ✍️ Zain Mohyuddin from UK in a Changing Europe

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🌹🇪🇺 Shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy wants to "seek a new geopolitical partnership with the EU" centred on an expansive "security pact" 👇 Joël Reland from UK in a Changing Europe explains why Labour's EU strategy might struggle to succeed

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The new boundaries are the first time there will be more constituencies with "and" in their title than there are constituency names consisting of a single word

Philip Cowley and Matthew Bailey on why constituency names are getting longer and more convoluted

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👨‍🏫 Tory peers could end up "tutoring" new MPs if a heavy election defeat results in the party having limited experience in the House of Commons, a Conservative Lord has said

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New polling for PolHome shows how the Tory focus on migration during the general election campaign risks alienating a huge chunk of voters

Just 2% of people who currently intend to back Labour on 4 July said it was their most important issue

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💩 “We have raw sewage running down the street every single time we get heavy rain. You have to walk through it. It's grim. It's medieval.” 👀 The Greens hope outrage over a polluted river will help deliver a seismic victory in Tory heartlands

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🏥 Labour's decision not to include the statement “the NHS is not for sale” in its election manifesto has prompted concern on the left

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💬 The launch of party manifestos should give candidates “answers to lots of questions”, according to one of the authors of the Tories' 2019 manifesto

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📝 Labour faces questions over whether plans to reform the House of Lords will undermine the party's long-term ambition to abolish the Upper Chamber

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📺 Rishi Sunak admitted in the TV debate last night that he had failed to deliver some of his key pledges to the nation ❓ Keir Starmer faced tough questions on trust, his plans for power, and his previous support for Jeremy Corbyn

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