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Breaking: UK Election: Labour on course for biggest of any UK majority party since 1832 – Yougov

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Labour are on course for a landslide victory on Thursday with a majority of 212 seats according to the final YouGov poll projection of the campaign.

This will give Sir Keir Starmer the biggest majority for any single party since 1832 in a vote which YouGov’s last MRP suggests will break a series of electoral records.

 

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YouGov’s final MRP of the election suggests that 16 of the current 26 cabinet minister employed by the government will lose their seats – including Jeremy Hunt. Other notable Tories, like Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Miriam Cates, also face ejection from the Commons.

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The list of likely losers also includes former Tory leaders like Sir Iain Duncan Smith and potential future leadership contenders like Miriam Cates.

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According to YouGov, Labour are set to win 431 seats, the highest number in the party’s history and passing the previous peak of 419 reached by Tony Blair in 1997 – making Sir Keir the most successful Labour leader in history in electoral terms.

This is more than double the 202 seats achieved by Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour in 2019.

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