Labour landslide – who’s in and who’s out? | SpectatorTV

As predicted, Keir Starmer has won an enormous majority. Elsewhere, eleven cabinet ministers have lost their seats, including: Grant Shapps, Gillian Keegan and Penny Mordaunt. Former prime minister Liz Truss has lost her seat, as have senior Tories Jacob Rees-Mogg and Miriam Cates. The Lib Dems have made massive gains, the SNP were decimated in Scotland and Nigel Farage is the MP for Clacton.

But it’s not a clean sweep for Labour. Two Labour frontbenchers have lost their seats and Starmer will enter government on a vote share of 35 per cent, the lowest of any postwar governing party. Will this hinder him in government? And is this landslide down to the Farage effect?

James Heale speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.

Produced by Natasha Feroze and Oscar Edmondson.

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[lewislee]

The Tories did not deserve a single seat for the disaster they inflicted on country for the last 14 years.

[andrewhotston]

Labour got two-thirds of the seats with only one-third of the popular vote. A clear demonstration of the unfairness of FPTP.

[japfourme]

Labour didn’t win this with a Landslide Victory! The Tories lost it with a Landslide Defeat!!

[prideofdurham]

Labour didnt win it, the Tories lost it. Starmer will be replaced after a year and this country becomes a third world one with donkeys and camels in the streets outside mosques.

[alangardner]

The 2nd lowest turnout than has ever been recorded and only a marginal increase in people voting Labour so although the amount of Labour MP's is impressive it's a very fragile victory.

[andrewhotston]

Many Tory MPs would have kept their seats if they'd defected to Reform, a proper conservative party.

[gavwan]

Torys and SNP lost, Labour gained about 1% more votes than 2019 in England when they lost that election.

[REwing]

There is not going to be any different from the last corruption.

[undefinedfreedom]

Boris Johnson managed to do the impossible: from a land slide majority to an utter oblivion.

[FraserBailey-jmyz]

The smug Spectator, which I have read weekly for well over 40 years, has reaped the whirlwind of its total failure to understand the appeal of Reform, which polled at 23% in my constituency.

[RichardEnglander]

Labour 9.6 million votes
ReformUK 4 million votes
The system needs to change

[geordiecanuck]

Posh accents. The North has spoken. We will not be ignored anymore. Number 10 best not concentrate on London and the Southeast anymore.

[Steve-ysig]

Labour and the Conservatives will definitely never change to PR because it suits them.

[patricka.crawley]

40%
...19, 200, 000
DID NOT VOTE
LANDSLIDE.

[frankward]

No-one mentioning the success of the pro-Gaza independents.

[chukwumaeneh]

Losers always give reasons labor won, congratulate them and move on.

[IMAC]

Why does the incumbency factor never affect Labour in Wales? They are generally perceived to be doing a terrible job an almost every metric but are never punished for it. Yet the Tories and SNP get hammered.

[AnonymousBosch]

The U.K. has just moved from a socialist lite to a socialist government, and the Tories got exactly what they deserve.
If Reform want to be taken seriously, then they need to get to work; five years is a very short time when you have to select, vet and train candidates.
Me, I’ll quietly move what little I have beyond the grasp of the government and hunker down. Good luck Britain.

[realjohn]

It was a good, even very good result for Reform but reality check Matt, it wasn't great. Tories did better than expected and l don't believe Reform will find more votes from the Tories south England base. Reform will have to find much more fertile ground from abour voters. Btw, Labour had 33% of the popular vote, are they a legitimate government? Discuss.

[petergregory]

I am so looking forward to Nigel Farage's first speech in Parliament, it will be memorable to be sure.