UK Votes: Will this be the worst defeat in British history? | ABC News

Published 2024-07-03
Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party are facing an electoral wipeout later today as voters in the UK head to the polls. The expectation is that fourteen years of Conservative rule is about to come crashing down in what may be the worst electoral defeat that Britain has ever seen. It would mean that Keir Starmer would become the new British Prime Minister and return the Labour Party to power. Polls have been wrong before, but they would have to be wrong on a historic scale to make the result a surprise.

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