Live updates: UK election results, Labour Party wins as PM Rishi Sunak concedes defeat

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Live updates: *** election results, Labour Party wins as PM Rishi Sunak concedes defeat

People celebrate exit poll results at a “Stop The Tories” election afterparty in London, on July 4.

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The ******* Kingdom’s decision to hand the center-left Labour Party a parliamentary majority, according to the exit poll, comes at the same time Europe is broadly in the grip of what some call a right-wing populist surge. 

Last month’s 

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 saw a historic number of lawmakers from hard-right and far-right parties elected to the ********* Parliament. The results caused such chaos that French President Emmanuel Macron called a snap parliamentary election in his own country, the first round of which the far-right National Rally 

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A government comprised of far-right figures was formed in the Netherlands this week. Italy is led by the most right-wing leader since the rule of fascist wartime leader Benito Mussolini. These electoral victories and the prospect of populist right-wingers in power is no longer a surprise in ********* countries. 

There are many reasons for this rise in populism, often unique to individual countries. But broadly speaking, a number of ********* countries are suffering from sluggish economies, high immigration and higher energy prices, due in part to the drive for carbon net zero. The ********* Union is often blamed for national woes by populist politicians and breathes oxygen into an increasingly Euroskeptic national discourse. 

So why is Britain, the only country where Euroskepticism led to a referendum on EU membership, projected to buck this trend?

Despite the expected seat count, the British right is far from *****. The ************* Party, despite its undeniably disappointing night, is set to outperform the expectations of a number of opinion polls during the campaign, some of which had it down to double digits in parliament. 

Another party that is set to exceed polling expectations is the populist right-wing Reform ***, led by long-term scourge of the Conservatives, Nigel Farage, who is perhaps best known these days for his friendship with former US President Donald Trump. Before this, he was credited with making Brexit possible after decades of campaigning against the ***’s membership of the EU. 

Farage’s political success to date has all come without him holding a parliamentary seat. Now he is not only projected to have a seat himself, but also 12 colleagues to hurl grenades at Labour leader Keir Starmer. While this may seem small fry compared to Starmer’s anticipated three-figure majority, Farage will no doubt influence the debate on the future direction of the ************* Party, possibly dragging it further to the right. 

It is possible that Farage’s splitting of the right has actually helped Starmer increase his majority in parliament. An odd quirk of British politics is that the percentage of votes a party gets doesn’t necessarily translate to seats. And with Reform performing well in many of the seats that Labour will ultimately win, the hard-right will not only be impossible to ignore in this parliament, but it could easily see its influence grow further. 

Britain suffers from many of the same problems as other ********* countries. If Starmer falters as prime minister, there is every chance that the popular right could continue to capture the public’s imagination, as it has elsewhere in Europe. 

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