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Sir Keir Starmer said ‘the fight for trust is the battle that defines our age’ in his first speech after the Labour Party secured more than 326 seats.

The SDLP leader won a majority of just over 4,000 and was elected as an MP with 15,647 of the valid poll.

A “Labour landslide” 14 years of Conservative government features across all of Friday’s newspaper front pages.

The Sinn Fein MP was returned as MP for the third time.

The TV star began celebrating after the exit poll predicted a 170-seat majority for Labour.

The former councillor polled 24,539 votes to beat her Labour opponent by 10,407 votes.

Labour’s Amanda Martin ousted the Leader of the Commons in Portsmouth North.

First Minister John Swinney said his party’s performance had been ‘very poor’.

The veteran SNP parliamentarian lost her seat to Labour’s Scott Arthur.

During his 20 months in No 10, the premier grappled with a toxic inheritance.

Sir Keir Starmer will swiftly face key decisions on appointments, policies and the nuclear deterrent.

The financial implications of walking away from the deal are not yet known.

The new Prime Minister remains something of an unknown quantity.

The Labour leader said the ‘sunlight of hope’ could be felt again after 14 years of Conservative rule.

Among the Cabinet ministers to lose seats were Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Justice Secretary Alex Chalk and Education Secretary Gillian Keegan.

The constituency was held by former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson for 27 years.

Rishi Sunak said he will stand down as Tory leader after a Labour landslide handed his party the worst defeat in its parliamentary history.

Mr Mercer came from a military family and graduated from Sandhurst in 2002.

Mr Hunt – who served as the longest-serving health secretary – has won his constituency of Godalming and Ash.

The Prime Minister said it had been a ‘sobering’ night for the Tories as Labour was on course for a landslide.