July 5 (UPI) — Britain’s Labor Party won a landslide victory Friday in a general election that saw the ruling Conservative Party of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak swept from power after 14 years in government.
With votes counted in 648 of 650 parliamentary seats, the Labor party had a majority of around 170 after winning 412 seats to the Conservatives’ 121, sweeping large areas across the country, including in Scotland and Wales.
Labor leader Keir Starmer was at Buckingham Palace in London mid-morning for an audience with King Charles, in which the monarch invited him to form a new government led by him.
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