UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer made a victory speech early on Friday after his party gained at least 326 seats, enough to have a majority in Parliament.
In his victory speech, Starmer said, "We did it, you campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it and now it has arrived, change begins now."
He pledged “national renewal” following 14 years of Conservative rule.
However, Starmer cautioned that having “a mandate like this comes with a great responsibility.” Meanwhile, the country’s first British Indian prime minister comfortably held on to his own Richmond and Northallerton seat in northern England with 23,059 votes but failed to turn things around for his party at a national level.
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