British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departed from Buckingham Palace following his resignation as prime minister late Friday morning, after the Conservative Party suffered staggering losses in the general election.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, left, leaves the Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London, Friday, July 5, 2024. Britain's Labour Party swept to power Friday after more than a decade in opposition, as a jaded electorate handed the party a landslide victory, but also a mammoth task of reinvigorating a stagnant economy and dispirited nation.
He left 10 Downing Street after giving his final speech as prime minister, hours suffering a landslide defeat by the left-of-center Labour Party, which will form a government for the first time in 14 years. Sunak said earlier that he took responsibility for his party's loss, and that he had called Labour leader Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.
Voters in the U.K. cast their ballots Thursday in a national election to choose the 650 lawmakers who will sit in Parliament for the next five years. With almost all results counted, Labour, led by Starmer, has gained at least 400 seats in Parliament. After more than a decade in power under five different prime ministers, Sunak 's Conservatives are set to have their seats in the 650-seat House of Commons cut down to around 130. That would be the Tories' worst result in the party's two-century history and one that would leave the party in disarray.
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