Angela Rayner is called Deputy PM and Rachel Reeves additionally arrives in Downing St to turn out to be Britain’s first feminine Chancellor as Keir Starmer appoints Cupboard after coming into No10 with vow to ‘instantly’ start ‘rebuilding Britain’

Angela Rayner was the primary arrival in Downing Avenue this afternoon as Sir Keir Starmer started to nominate his Cupboard shortly after coming into No10 for the primary time as Prime Minister.

Labour’s deputy chief walked down the well-known London road earlier than being named by Sir Keir as Britain’s new Deputy Prime Minister.

Ms Rayner was additionally appointed Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary as she was handed a portfolio targeted on her social gathering’s deliberate housebuilding blitz.

It was swiftly adopted by the naming of Rachel Reeves as Britain’s first feminine Chancellor.

Ms Reeves, a self-confessed ‘geek’ and schoolgirl chess champion, is one in all Sir Keir’s closest allies and would be the first girl to guide the Treasury in its 1,000-year historical past.

She was adopted into Downing Avenue by David Lammy, Yvette Cooper, John Healey, and Wes Streeting as Sir Keir seemed to fill key roles within the Overseas Workplace, House Workplace, Ministry of Defence and Division of Well being and Social Care.

He started his Cupboard appointments after earlier stepping by way of the doorway to No10 as the brand new Labour premier with a vow to ‘instantly’ start work to ‘rebuild Britain’.

The Labour chief was applauded by workers contained in the well-known black door as he walked inside with spouse Victoria after making his first tackle to the nation as the brand new premier.

The 61-year-old acknowledged ‘weariness on the coronary heart of the nation’ after his so-called ‘loveless landslide’ within the normal election.

Jubilant social gathering activists had earlier cheered his arrival into Downing Avenue after he was formally put in as Britain’s 58th PM by King Charles.

He and Victoria obtained a rapturous welcome after coming back from the Palace the place he had an viewers with His Majesty round midday, shortly after Rishi Sunak exited having tendered his resignation. 

Sir Keir mentioned he wished to ‘modified the nation’ however warned it can ‘take some time’, saying he wished to revive the values of ‘service’ to politics. He admitted that many individuals didn’t imagine he would enhance the nation.

‘My authorities will struggle each day till you imagine once more,’ he mentioned. 

At Buckingham Palace the couple had been welcomed by the King and Queen’s principal non-public secretary Sir Clive Alderton, together with Charles’s equerry Royal Navy Commander William Thornton.

They left 20 minutes later to go to Downing Avenue, after Sir Keir was appointed to the job.

Buckingham Palace mentioned in a press release: ‘The King obtained in Viewers The Proper Honourable Sir Keir Starmer MP in the present day and requested him to type a brand new Administration. 

‘Sir Keir accepted His Majesty’s supply and kissed arms upon his appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.’ 

The time-honoured choreography comes as Sir Keir’s majority ticks as much as 174, simply wanting Tony Blair’s 179 in 1997. The Tories have 121 with simply two left to declare, far worse than their earlier nadir of 156 in 1906.

The Lib Dems additionally inflicted huge ache on the Conservatives, racking up a report 71 seats as Reform leeched thousands and thousands of votes and got here second in round 100 constituencies – however solely scored 4 MPs of their very own. 

Nevertheless, Labour’s victory is being dubbed a ‘loveless landslide’ and a ‘tremendous meh-jority’, having obtained barely one in three votes throughout the UK.

Polling consultants highlighted how Labour’s vote share of 33.8 per cent is more likely to be lower than any of Sir Tony’s normal election victories in 1997, 2001 or 2005.

It’s even lower than the 40 per cent vote share hard-left Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn secured in 2017 and decrease than the 36.1 per cent David Cameron received for the Conservatives in 2010 when that yr’s election led to a hung parliament.

Some newly-elected Labour MPs urged the general public might be occupied with overhauling Britain’s voting system within the wake of the social gathering’s triumph, whereas Corbyn’s allies swiped that Sir Keir had received ‘by default’ as a result of dramatic collapse in Conservative help.

Lower than an hour earlier than Sir Keir arrived on the Palace, Mr Sunak bade goodbye to Downing Avenue after main the Tories to their worst ever election end result. 

Flanked by clearly emotional spouse Akshata, the PM delivered his parting assertion outdoors the well-known black door saying he was ‘sorry’ and had ‘heard the anger’ of the nation and the ‘clear message’ of the poll. 

Sir Keir trumpeted his victory at a rally in central London within the early hours after the social gathering formally crested the 325 seats wanted to regulate the Commons, saying ‘we did it!’ 

Sealing his triumph with a kiss from Victoria, he mentioned the British folks had ‘voted to show the web page’ on 14 years of Conservative rule – and delivered a riposte to his critics saying there was ‘nothing inevitable’ in regards to the end result. 

In a jaw-dropping second, Liz Truss was among the many casualties – giving up a monumental 24,000 majority as she was edged out by Labour in South West Norfolk.  

Earlier, Penny Mordaunt and Grant Shapps fell victims to a brutal Tory cull as Labour swept in the direction of election victory.

A glum-looking Defence Secretary suffered a ‘Portillo Second’ as he was defeated by Labour in Welwyn Hatfield by round 3,000 votes.

In his parting shot, Mr Shapps mentioned the Conservatives had ‘misplaced’ the election slightly than Labour profitable it – and ‘tried the endurance’ of the general public by being divided.

In different rollercoaster developments:

• The Greens have loved a bumper night time profitable 4 seats, including three to their tally from 2019; 
• Labour’s total help in Britain has solely gone up by 2 per cent, in response to polling guru John Curtice, and that’s totally attributable to a 17 level enhance in Scotland; 
• Reform has racked up votes and almost 100 second locations, however fallen wanting breakthroughs predicted within the preliminary exit ballot;
• The SNP has been among the many greatest losers, dealing with being slashed to 9 MPs, which means they might not be the largest social gathering in Scotland;
• George Galloway has been ousted by Labour’s Paul Waugh in Rochdale, after profitable the seat in a by-election beforehand; 
• Turnout has been far decrease than at the previous couple of normal elections; 
• The Lib Dems claimed victory in Tunbridge Wells, which has been Tory because the seat was created within the Seventies, in Boris Johnson’s outdated seat of Henley and in David Cameron’s stronghold of Witney;
• The 2024 normal election outcomes in full: Reside maps and charts 

On the steps of Downing Avenue, Sir Keir mentioned Britain had ‘voted decisively for change, for nationwide renewal and a return of politics to public service’.

‘When the hole between the sacrifices made by folks and the service they obtain from politicians grows this large, it results in a weariness within the coronary heart of a nation, a draining away of the hope, the spirit, the assumption in a greater future,’ he mentioned.

‘However we have to transfer ahead collectively. Now this wound, this lack of belief can solely be healed by actions not phrases, I do know that.

‘However we will make a begin in the present day with the straightforward acknowledgement that public service is a privilege and that your authorities ought to deal with each single individual on this nation with respect.’

He mentioned: ‘Altering a rustic is just not like flicking a swap. The world is now a extra risky place. This can take some time.

‘However have little doubt that the work of change begins instantly. Have little doubt that we are going to rebuild Britain, with wealth created in each group. Our NHS again on its ft dealing with the long run. Safe borders, safer streets, everybody handled with dignity and respect at work. The chance of fresh British energy, slicing your vitality payments for good.

‘Brick by brick, we are going to rebuild the infrastructure of alternative. The world-class faculties and schools, the inexpensive properties that I do know are the elements of hope for working folks. The safety, the working-class households like mine might construct their lives round.’

Sir Keir promised a authorities ‘unburdened by doctrine’ and to struggle for folks’s perception in a brighter future.

The Labour chief mentioned: ‘If I requested you now whether or not you imagine that Britain might be higher on your kids, I do know too a lot of you’ll say no.

‘So, my Authorities will struggle each day till you imagine once more.

‘Any longer, you’ve a Authorities unburdened by doctrine, guided solely by the willpower to serve your curiosity, to defy quietly those that have written our nation off.

‘You have got given us a transparent mandate and we are going to use it to ship change, to revive service and respect to politics.’

In his valedictory speech, Mr Sunak mentioned: ‘I’ve given this job my all. However you’ve despatched a transparent message, and yours is the one judgement that issues. 

‘It is a tough day, however I depart this job honoured to have been Prime Minister of one of the best nation on this planet.’

Mr Sunak mentioned he would resign as Tory chief as soon as a alternative had been chosen. He additionally paid tribute to Sir Keir as a public servant, wishing him and his household effectively of their new duties.

After his brief speech the couple – not accompanied by their daughters and with Akshata carrying an umbrella – walked to a ready automotive and had been pushed away to the Palace.  

Polling knowledgeable Sir John Curtice famous how Labour’s vote share was anticipated to be up by just below two proportion factors throughout the nation from 2019.

He mentioned Labour’s victory was ‘largely on the again of a dramatic 20 level decline in Conservative help’. 

In an article for the BBC, Sir John added the rise in Labour’s vote share was ‘totally because of a 17 level improve in help in Scotland’.

‘In Wales, the social gathering’s vote has truly fallen again by 4 factors, whereas in England the social gathering’s vote is essentially unchanged from 2019,’ he wrote.

‘It’s potential that Labour will safe its landslide on a decrease share of the vote (35 per cent in Nice Britain) than any of Tony Blair’s victories, together with the 36 per cent the social gathering received in 2005.

‘That itself was hitherto the bottom share of the vote received by a majority single social gathering authorities. In some ways, this appears to be like extra like an election the Conservatives have misplaced than one Labour has received.’

Requested about her social gathering’s low vote share however big majority, Labour MP Daybreak Butler mentioned: ‘I feel what the dialogue might be about might be proportional illustration.

‘The general public might be speaking about proportional illustration and whether or not we have to have a debate about it. I’ve all the time mentioned that we do have to have a debate about it.’

Channel 4 political editor Gary Gibbon mentioned: ‘That huge determine has been delivered with a comparatively small proportion of the folks.

‘That appears like love however that could be a loveless landslide. There has not been the form of enthusiasm that you just would possibly anticipate on the market.’

Mr Corbyn’s former spokesman, Matt Zarb-Cousin, mentioned: ‘Labour is already peddling a story that this victory is right down to a modified Labour Celebration.

‘The truth in fact is Keir Starmer was holding the move the parcel on the proper time, when the Tories finally imploded. So that they’ve received by default, on a decrease share of the vote than 2017.’

Welsh Secretary David Davies, Tradition Secretary Lucy Frazer, Science minister Michelle Donelan, Training Secretary Gillian Keegan and Justice Secretary Alex Chalk had been crushed throughout a traumatic night time for the Tories.

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt barely survived in Godalming & Ash. Altogether not less than 16 ministers have gone, with Johnny Mercer and Therese Coffey crushed by Labour.

Jacob Rees-Mogg additionally tumbled in North East Somerset and Hanham. Nevertheless, former Tory chief Sir Iain Duncan Smith shocked many by clinging on in Chingford.

There at the moment are no Tory MPs in Wales after Craig Williams, a former Tory aide to Mr Sunak, got here third in Mongomeryshire as an impartial after being embroiled in a playing row over the date of the election.

Nevertheless, there have been notable setbacks for Labour with frontbencher Jonathan Ashworth shedding to a pro-Gaza impartial in Leicester, and shadow well being secretary Wes Streeting barely keeping off an analogous problem.

One other shadow cupboard minister, Thangam Debonaire, was picked off by the Greens in Bristol Central. 

Reform UK chief Nigel Farage lastly enters Parliament in Clacton after his eighth try to turn out to be an MP, whereas his social gathering colleague Lee Anderson has retained Ashfield, Rupert Lowe received Nice Yarmouth and Richard Tice scooped Boston and Skegness. 

In his speech on the Tate Fashionable artwork gallery, Sir Keir mentioned: ‘It feels good, I’ve to be trustworthy. 4-and-a-half years of labor altering the social gathering, that is what it’s for – a modified Labour Celebration able to serve our nation, prepared to revive Britain to the service of working folks.

‘And throughout our nation, folks might be waking as much as the information, aid {that a} weight has been lifted, a burden lastly faraway from the shoulders of this nice nation.

‘And now we will look ahead, stroll into the morning, the daylight of hope, pale at first however getting stronger by way of the day, shining as soon as once more, on a rustic with the chance after 14 years to get its future again.’

At his acceptance speech after being re-elected in Richmond and Northallerton, Mr Sunak mentioned: ‘The Labour Celebration has received this Common Election and I’ve known as Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.’

Mr Sunak added: ‘The British folks have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there may be a lot to be taught… and I take accountability for the loss.’

The Labour chief mentioned ‘change begins now’ as he was re-elected in Holborn & St Pancras, however his personal majority was diminished by a left-wing impartial. 

Mr Shapps was the primary confirmed Cupboard casualty and he hit out on the Tory ‘cleaning soap opera’ which had turned off voters.

‘On door after door, voters have been dismayed by our incapacity to iron out our variations in non-public and try this after which be united in public,’ he mentioned.

‘As a substitute we have now tried the endurance of conventional Conservative voters with a propensity to create an limitless political cleaning soap opera out of inner rivalries and divisions which have turn out to be more and more indulgent and entrenched.’

He mentioned there was a hazard the Tory social gathering might ‘go off on some tangent, condemning ourselves to years of lacklustre opposition’.

Ms Mordaunt, who’s more likely to have been a management contender if she had survived, mentioned her social gathering had taken a ‘battering as a result of it didn’t honour the belief that individuals had positioned in it’.

She too warned in opposition to a retreat to the best: ‘Our renewal as a celebration and a rustic is not going to be achieved by us speaking to an ever smaller slice of ourselves however being guided by the folks of our nation. And if we would like once more to be the pure social gathering of presidency, then our values should be the folks’s.

Former residence secretary Suella Braverman, who will now be thought-about a number one contender to exchange Mr Suank, mentioned the social gathering had let the British folks down.

‘You, the nice British folks, voted for us over 14 years and we didn’t hold our guarantees,’ she mentioned.

‘I’ll do the whole lot in my energy to rebuild belief.

‘We have to take heed to you, you’ve spoken to us very clearly.’

Celebration chair Ric Holden received a determined battle for Basildon & Billericay, rising on high by simply 20 votes after a collection of recounts.  

Mr Sunak is anticipated to announce he’s quitting as chief however keep on till a alternative is chosen. 

Ex-home secretary Suella Braverman, at her depend, mentioned she was ‘sorry’ for the behaviour of her social gathering and the way it had deserted core supporters’ values. 

Sir Keir’s ally Lord Mandelson gloated that he was ‘gobsmacked’ and an ‘electoral meteor’ had ‘struck planet Earth’. He mentioned it might have required a ‘superman’ to save lots of the Tories and Rishi Sunak ‘is just not superman’.

Shadow well being secretary Wes Streeting was in tears as he was instructed the figures on dwell TV. 

A dire marketing campaign for Mr Sunak got here stuttering to a halt final night time, with the PM making a collection extra defensive visits within the South East.

He now faces being out of Downing Avenue this morning.

Former Scottish Conservative chief Ruth Davidson instructed Sky Information that it seemed like a ‘bloodbath’.

The Tories have shortly plunged right into a harmful new part of disaster, with questions over whether or not it may possibly even survive amid the problem from Reform.

A former Cupboard minister – who regarded their very own vital majority as beneath menace – mentioned Mr Sunak had ‘knifed’ Boris Johnson and can be remembered because the ‘worst PM ever’. 

Within the first tangible proof of the hammering, Labour’s Heidi Alexander took ex-Cupboard minister Robert Buckland‘s Swindon South seat with a 9,000 majority. 

However Sir Robert gave a stark warning in opposition to the Tories lurching to the best, saying the social gathering risked being like ‘bald males combating over a comb’ if it handled politics as ‘efficiency artwork’ and tried to outflank Reform. 

Sir John Curtice instructed the BBC: ‘It appears to be like as if Reform might win extra seats than many polls urged.

‘That is largely as a result of, not solely has the Conservative vote fallen far in seats they beforehand held, but in addition as a result of Reform has superior most in areas folks voted Depart within the 2016 EU referendum.

‘Nevertheless, what number of seats Reform will win is extremely unsure – our mannequin suggests there are a lot of locations the place they’ve some – however a comparatively low – likelihood of profitable.’

Mr Farage hailed indicators of a breakthrough after Reform pushed the Tories into third place in two early constituency outcomes.

On a video posted to X he mentioned: ‘It is midnight, there are two ends in from the north-east of England that put Reform on 30 per cent of the vote, that’s far more than any potential prediction or projection. It’s nearly unbelievable.

‘And what does it imply? It means we’ll win seats, many many seats I feel proper now throughout the nation.

‘However to look at the TV protection it is nearly comical. There’s not a single consultant on there from Reform UK, mainstream media are in denial simply as a lot as our political events.

‘That is going to be six million votes-plus. This, people, is big.’

A Conservative spokesman mentioned they needed to anticipate the complete end result, however added: ‘If these outcomes are right it’s clear that Starmer and Angela Rayner might be in Downing Avenue tomorrow.’ 

Conservatives with large majorities had turn out to be more and more nervous in the course of the day, regardless of CCHQ claiming that higher-than-expected turnout might assist them.

One former Cupboard minister instructed MailOnline: ‘There seems to be an even bigger turnout than regular in a few of my areas. Not all although.

‘That would appear to point a willpower on the a part of the citizens to make their views heard, nearly actually more likely to be in opposition to the Tories.’

Former Labour chief Lord Neil Kinnock mentioned the exit ballot’s landslide prediction was ‘the best comeback since Lazarus’.

The previous Labour chief instructed ITV Information: ‘A acquire of 208, in response to the exit ballot, which is attributable on to Keir Starmer and what he is achieved in 4 years, two of which in fact had been in the course of the lockdown, or the digital lockdown when the one factor that opposition leaders depend upon – contact with the general public – was absent.

‘It is the largest comeback since Lazarus.’

He went on: ‘I need to say I am simply ecstatic about the truth that a completely reliable, absolutely grown-up man, Keir Starmer, and his spouse, are going to undergo that door tomorrow. I’ve unalloyed and unreserved delight.’

Lower than an hour earlier than the exit ballot dropped, Downing Avenue launched a dissolution honours listing – sending seven Tories and eight Labour politicians to the Lords. They embody Theresa Might, Rishi Sunak’s chief aide Liam Sales space-Smith, Chris Grayling and former 1922 committee chair Graham Brady.

Harriet Harman and Margaret Beckett are amongst these on the Labour listing – regardless of Sir Keir having dedicated to abolishing the Higher Home. 

Mr Sunak took an enormous political gamble and shocked Westminster by triggering the election on Might 22, slightly than ready till the Autumn as had been broadly anticipated.

It initially seemed to be paying off, with early insurance policies from the Tory marketing campaign – similar to nationwide citizen service – seeming to chop by way of.

In a giant second, Mr Farage responded by ruling out standing as a Reform candidate, admitting he didn’t have time to place collectively a marketing campaign.

However even then the Tories didn’t see an actual bounce within the polls. The Tories misplaced key laws together with Mr Sunak’s flagship smoking ban in the course of the ‘wash-up’ as Parliament was dissolved for the marketing campaign.

After which a grim week in early June noticed issues go spectacularly downhill, with Mr Farage dropping the bombshell that had modified his thoughts and was taking up the management of Reform in addition to standing to be MP for Clacton.

Though Mr Sunak was seen as touchdown blows on Sir Keir over tax throughout their first TV debate on June 4, catastrophe struck when the PM opted to return early from D-Day anniversary commemorations in France to conduct an interview with ITV.

A subsequent grovelling apology didn’t forestall Mr Farage and opponents seizing on the blunder, which struck proper on the coronary heart of the Tory purpose of shoring up the core vote amongst older generations.

With polls already exhibiting Reform consuming into Tory help with potent assaults on immigration, Mr Sunak was then engulfed in one other scandal.

It emerged that his closest Parliamentary aide, Craig Williams had efficiently positioned bets on the date of the snap election – though he insisted he didn’t have any inside data.

Different candidates and high social gathering officers had been then dragged into the allegations, which proved notably poisonous with the general public. 

Mr Sunak was memorably challenged on the problem throughout TV appearances, admitting he was ‘extremely indignant’. However he was seen as taking far too lengthy to withdraw help for candidates dealing with allegations.

With some polls even exhibiting Reform forward of the Tories, CCHQ shifted ways to warn of the specter of a divided Proper handing Labour a ‘supermajority’ with untrammeled energy.

That along with controversial remarks from Mr Farage in regards to the West ‘scary’ Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and revelations about unsavoury feedback by a collection of Reform candidates seemed to have stopped the bleeding.

However after a bruising six weeks Labour’s big benefit was intact, and the one vital change was that the Tories had misplaced floor to Reform. 

By yesterday, regardless of Mr Sunak’s declare he was ‘combating laborious for each vote’, his shut ally Mel Stride was successfully acknowledging the Conservatives would lose – an unprecedented step. 

The Work and Pensions Secretary mentioned Labour would get an ‘extraordinary landslide on a scale that has most likely by no means, ever been seen on this nation earlier than’. 

As pressure constructed by way of election day, the Tories claimed a higher-than-expected turnout had left them with a ‘MUCH higher likelihood’ than cataclysmic polls had urged.

An e-mail to Conservative supporters, signed from the ‘CCHQ Information Workforce’, learn: ‘We’re getting studies from our groups on the bottom. And the extra studies we get, the extra it appears to be like like turnout is increased than anticipated.

‘Meaning we might have a MUCH higher likelihood than polls have urged. So if you have not voted but, now’s the time to get out.’

Queues of individuals had been seen at polling stations in the present day because the requirement for voters to deliver right photograph identification – similar to a passport or driving licence – was enforced at a UK normal election for the primary time.

There was a bungle at a Glasgow polling station this morning as voters had been met with posters itemizing the flawed directions, which erroneously suggested the rating of candidates so as of choice.

That is how ballots are solid in native elections in Scotland, which use the only transferable vote system. However normal elections use the first-past-the-post system, which requires voters to place a single ‘X’ subsequent to their chosen candidate.

Glasgow Metropolis Council defined the error was noticed ‘very quickly’ after the polling station opened at 7am and the posters had been changed with the proper data. It mentioned no-one had been disenfranchised as voters’ first preferences can be used from the affected ballots.

Cupboard minister Kemi Badenoch this afternoon blasted her personal native council for having ‘probably disenfranchised’ hundreds of postal voters who didn’t obtain their poll papers.

The Enterprise Secretary hit out at Uttlesford District Council for ‘forgetting’ to ship postal votes to 2,600 folks in her North West Essex seat.

Previous to polls opening this morning, Rishi Sunak made an Eleventh-hour plea for voters to stop a ‘socialist supermajority’ wrecking Britain, as he repeated his warning in opposition to handing Sir Keir ‘unchecked’ energy.