Electioncast Results: Labour Wins General Election
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4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The ballots are still being counted, but Labour are set to win a landslide victory in the 2024 General Election, making Sir Keir Starmer the new Prime Minister.
Meanwhile the Conservatives are on track for a crushing defeat with several cabinet ministers losing their seats. The Lib Dems look set to return to levels not seen since before the coalition. And Nigel Farage has become an MP at the 8th time of asking.
Adam and Chris react to the results from the Newscast Election All-Nighter. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Sam Mclaren. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | We can now say with certainty that Labour have won the 2024 general election, |
| 0:10.3 | as I speak, they have gained 326 seats is now 327. The size of the majority is |
| 0:19.6 | still to be determined as the results continue to come in. But what a moment this is for |
| 0:24.8 | labor. That was Clive Myri on BBC One, announcing that labor are the next government |
| 0:31.0 | having won the UK general election of 2024 with a landslide. |
| 0:35.7 | That means Kirstarma later on Friday will officially become Prime Minister. |
| 0:41.4 | It means Rishi Sunak will probably resign as Tory |
| 0:45.0 | leader. It means there are loads of people we've spent years talking about who are |
| 0:49.2 | out of government and aren't even MPs anymore. People like Grant Shaps, people like Penny Mordent, |
| 0:56.7 | to raise coffee, who two years ago was Deputy Prime Minister. Guess who has finally won a seat in the House of Commons after trying eight times? |
| 1:07.2 | Nigel Farage. |
| 1:09.4 | The SMP had an absolutely dreadful night in Scotland which means overnight the conversation |
| 1:15.0 | about Scotland's constitutional future will change and also guess who's back? |
| 1:20.6 | The Lib Dems they're probably going to end up where they were all before that whole coalition nightmare for them. |
| 1:28.0 | So there is just so much to talk about in this episode of newscast, which I'm recording in the BBC Radio Theatre and |
| 1:34.3 | I'm not on my own am I guys |
| 1:38.8 | because we've been hosting all night the newscast all night watch party in the |
| 1:47.6 | BBC Radio Theater in London which we turned into a massive living room with |
| 1:51.3 | sofas cush cushions, rugs, branded toothbrushes, which will feature |
| 1:56.8 | again in this episode as we watch the results come in and everyone reacted to them, which |
| 2:02.0 | means it's the perfect time and the perfect |
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