The Exit poll has forecast that Labour is projected to win a landslide in this election
The party is set to win 410 seats while
The Tories are facing an historic implosion, with its number of MPs dropping to its lowest level since 1830s with 131
Reform are set to pick up 13 MPs with an even bigger share of the vote than LibDems who would become the third largest party with 61 seats
In Scotland, The SNP is set to suffer a wipeout winning just 10 seats
The forecast if correct would give Labour a majority of 170
The poll projects that Jeremy Hunt, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Steve Baker, Iain Duncan Smith and Jacob Rees-Mogg are all likely to lose their seats
The forecast if correct would also represent the biggest post-war drop in the number of Tory MPs between elections: down 241 on the 2019 result (adjusted to 2024 boundaries), beating the previous record of a drop of 219 at the 1945 election.
The poll if correct would see every Greater Manchester constituency return a Labour MP apart from Cheadle and Hazel Grove where the Lib Dem’s are forecast to win
George Galloway is set to lose his Rochdale seat to Labour
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner and Greater Manchester MP tells ITV “I’m not about to start counting the chickens just yet, but it is an encouraging result.”
