CELEBRITY Labour supporters have been voicing their joy at Sir Keir Starmer’s crushing victory over the Conservative Party today.
Lily Allen, Gary Neville and Carol Vorderman are among the big names celebrating Labour’s landslide performance, earning more than 400 seats compared to the vanquished Tories’ 121.
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Nigella Lawson and Russell T Davies have also celebrated the Conservatives’ defeat.
Former Countdown star Vorderman trumpeted the use of tactical voting, saying it contributed to the defeat of high profile Conservatives including former Prime Minister Liz Truss.
She wrote on X: “BREAKING Liz Truss lost her seat due to Tactical voting and YOU.
“She lost by 630 votes BUT A massive c 4,500 postcodes in South West Norfolk constituency were typed into our website http://stopthetories.vote during this GE campaign.
“7 times more than her vote loss. I can tell you around 1.75 MILLION POSTCODES have been typed into http://stopthetories.vote during the general election campaign.
“Lots of analysis to come. So many seats where this has happened.”
Lily Allen posted ‘thank f***’ on X following the result.
Nigella also appeared to celebrate Truss’s defeat in her South West Norfolk constituency, where she lost her seat to Labour’s Terry Jermy in one of the biggest shocks of election night.
The celebrity chef tweeted a cartwheel emoji, a lettuce emoji and another cartwheel emoji.
Truss came to be associated with a lettuce after a newspaper livestreamed footage of the vegetable to see if it would last longer than her tenure in No 10.
Doctor Who showrunner Davies appeared particularly pleased by the ousting of veteran Conservative MP Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Tory big beasts fall in General Election wipeout
A STRING of Tory big beasts have fallen in a General Election wipeout as Labour stormed into power with a landslide victory.
Former PM Liz Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps and Penny Mordaunt are among the big names who lost their seats in a night of seismic change.
Read our general election live blog here for all the latest results
In a shock moment, Truss was ousted in Norfolk South West – which was considered a safe Conservative seat.
Labour‘s Terry Jeremy won the seat with 11,847 votes, narrowly edging out the former PM who racked up 11,217.
Defence Secretary Shapps and Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt – who had been expected to throw their hats in the ring for leader – were also among eleven Cabinet ministers to have been ousted in the election.
Labour stormed into Downing Street after securing the required 326 seats, while the Tories have taken a battering across the UK.
Shapps suffered the first shock loss of the night as he was defeated by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield.
Mordaunt looked crestfallen as she lost her Portsmouth North seat to Labour’s Amanda Martin by just 780 votes.
And Tory heavyweight Rees-Mogg was stunned by a humiliating defeat in Bath this morning.
In one flurry shortly before 4am Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, Tory Deputy Chairman Jonathan Gullis and Chief Whip Simon Hart all lost their seats.
Justice Secretary Alex Chalk and Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer were also ousted.
And Treasury minister Bim Afolami was unseated in Hitchin by Labour.
Michelle Donelan, David Davies, Victoria Prentis and Mark Harper were also culled in a Tory bloodbath.
Another losing out to Labour was Minister of State for Veterans’ Affairs Johnny Mercer in Plymouth Moor View.
UK Minister of State for Northern Ireland Steve Baker lost his Wycombe seat to Labour’s Emma Reynolds.
However, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt narrowly kept his seat in South West Surrey, and PM Rishi Sunak held Richmond and Northallerton.
Home Secretary James Cleverley kept hold of his seat in Braintree, with 35.5 per cent of the vote share.
The Brexiteer was defeated by Labour’s Dan Norris in the new North East Somerset and Hanham constituency.
Davies shared the viral photo of Sir Jacob lounging in the front bench of the House Of Commons and wrote: “At last,” adding a celebration emoji.
He added the location of the post as: “New World.”
After an historic election night:
- Keir Starmer has become Britain’s next Prime Minister after Labour got 412 seats amid a brutal Tory wipeout.
- He promised to lead a Labour party grounded in “public service” in his first speech as PM in front of a jubilant crowd at No 10.
- Sir Keir will now appoint his cabinet as he cracks on with his plan for change.
- Rishi Sunak admitted defeat earlier on the steps of Downing Street and apologised to the nation for his party’s failures.
- Tory big beasts including former PM Liz Truss and ex-Defence Secretary Grant Shapps have lost seats after a nightmare night for Conservatives.
- He was followed by Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt, one of eight Cabinet ministers have lost their seats
- Nigel Farage’s Reform party claimed an unprecedented four seats as they grabbed votes from the Tories.
- Tory defector Lee Anderson claimed the first Reform seat, followed by Farage, Richard Tice, and Rupert Lowe.
- Sir Keir’s predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, now standing as an independent, also held onto Islington North
- All eyes are now on our new PM with Piers Morgan telling our Never Mind The Ballots election show that Sir Keir MUST deliver real change after the Tory disaster
Filmmaker David Furnish, the husband of Sir Elton John, commented: “Bye Felicia,” on the post.
Former footballer Gary Neville also seemed gratified by Sir Jacob’s defeat, also tweeting the photo of him in repose on the front bench.
He wrote: “Morning,” adding the red rose emoji, which is the symbol of the Labour Party.
Neville also trumpeted the ousting of Ms Truss, writing: “Liz Truss no longer an MP. Fully deserved for the devastating wrecking ball impact on this country!”
Meanwhile, Good Morning Britain presenter Kate Garraway shared a video of herself at a north London count calling down to the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him after he was re-elected as MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
She wrote: “Me ‘Congratulations Prime Minister!’
“@gmb is the first at 2.40am to welcome Sir Keir into his new role. Check out his smile and wave, and the cheer.”
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Labour WIN landslide election as Keir Starmer says ‘today we start the next chapter’
SIR Keir Starmer has declared “we did it” and said today “we start the next chapter” as his party won a landslide election.
In his victory speech, the Labour leader said the UK was again experiencing the “sunlight of hope”.
Tory leader Rishi Sunak conceded defeat after a “sobering” night for his party which saw a record eight Cabinet minister lose their seats.
It is understood Sir Keir received a telephone call shortly before 4am when he was in a car with his wife Victoria on the way to Labour’s victory rally.
In Tate Modern’s iconic turbine hall, Sir Keir said the country could now “get its future back”.
He told jubilant activists “we did it”, adding: “Change begins now.”
Sir Keir said: “You campaigned for it, you fought for it, you voted for it, and now it has arrived – change begins now. It feels good, I have to be honest.
“Four-and-a-half years of work changing the party, this is what it is for – a changed Labour Party ready to serve our country, ready to restore Britain to the service of working people.
“And across our country, people will be waking up to the news, relief that a weight has been lifted, a burden finally removed from the shoulders of this great nation.
“And now we can look forward, walk into the morning, the sunlight of hope, pale at first but getting stronger through the day, shining once again, on a country with the opportunity after 14 years to get its future back.”