Starmer’s Labour was on course to achieve a remarkable turnaround from a disastrous result for his party in 2019, with a landslide victory forecast to be roughly on a par with Tony Blair’s first election win in 1997.
Predictions were that Labour would win 408 seats out of 650, well ahead of the 326 required for a majority, with some seats falling to the party on swings of over 20 percentage points from the Conservatives, including both Tamworth and Lichfield in the Midlands.
Its first gain, South Swindon, in the south-west of England, saw a swing of 16.4 percentage points from Sunak’s losing Conservatives to Labour. That was well ahead of the 12.7 points needed to win an overall majority in Britain’s parliament and would be the biggest swing to any winning party in the UK since the Second World War.
Five years ago, few politicians or commentators expected Labour could recover so quickly, but the winning party was aided by a divided opposition in which insurgent right-wing party Nigel Farage’s Reform UK took votes from the Conservatives weakened and tarnished by the unpopular premierships of Sunak predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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2wNigel you don’t have enough seats to make a difference.