It’s a political and social earthquake for Britain, never seen before in our life – Keir MUST deliver, says Piers Morgan
PIERS Morgan has described Labour’s predicted landslide as a political “earthquake” and a “seismic night” for the UK.
The Piers Morgan Uncensored host joined our star-studded panel of experts for a Never Mind The Ballots election special tonight.
It comes as an exit poll has projected Labour steamrolling into Downing Street with a majority that may eclipse Tony Blair’s 1997 rout.
Labour is predicted to take 410 seats, up 209 from 2019.
It will leave the Tories with just 131 MPs, down 241 from Boris Johnson’s 80-seat majority five years ago.
The Lib Dems are expected to take 61 and Reform will have 13 MPs, the exit poll suggests.
On a historic night:
- Exit polls predicted a huge Labour landslide of 410 seats
- Piers Morgan described it as a ‘political and social earthquake’
- He told our Never Mind The Ballots election show that Sir Keir MUST deliver after the Tory disaster
- A battle for the soul of the Conservative party was already underway
- Cabinet Ministers including Jeremy Hunt and Penny Mordaunt were looking likely to lose their seats
- Mr Farage’s basked in record swings to his fledgling Reform party
- The Brexit champion is on course to become an MP for the first time
- But Piers warned he can’t hide and must finally be held to account
- Shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson all-but claimed victory for Labour as she was elected
Piers, who has interviewed Rishi Sunak twice, provided a snap reaction to the first indication of the election results.
He said: “It’s an earthquake. This is a political and social earthquake for this country, the likes of which I haven’t seen in my lifetime.
“I think first of all you have to say congratulations to Keir Starmer, who has taken the party from being completely unelectable under Jeremy Corbyn to being a party with this gigantic majority.
“Of course there’s now huge pressure on him to deliver on the faith that the electorate has shown him.
“A disaster for the Conservative Party which cannot be understated. Whichever way you look at this, it’s a seismic night.”
The exit poll suggests 14 years of Tory rule will come crashing to an end after Mr Sunak’s early election gamble failed to revive Tory fortunes.
It will leave the party with one of the lowest number of MPs in modern times – and is a mammoth plunge from the 365 seats won by Mr Johnson in 2019.
Piers added: “I don’t think this is necessarily down to Starmer’s fantastic, charismatic personality or any great policies.
“However, would Jeremy Corbyn have ever come close to anything like this whatever the Tories had done? No chance.
“In terms of how he has made the party more electable, moving them towards the centre, taking positions on things like Israel – very contentious for much of his party.
EXIT POLL RESULTS
410 Labour
131 Conservatives
13 Reform UK
61 Lib Dem
10 SNP
2 Green Party
“Quite courageous decisions as the leader of the Labour Party, actually. For him now, the fundamental question is we’ve seen so little meat on the bone in terms of what his policies are going to be.
“We already know they’ve ruled out two-thirds of most of the tax revenue streams, so they’re going to come after the rich – inheritance tax we’re hearing, VAT on independent schools, all that kind of stuff.
“You can get away with that if it looks like you are genuinely improving the lives of everybody else. But if you’re not, and you’re whacking the middle classes and the rich then it can unravel quite quickly.”
Unless he defies the odds and avoids an expected heavy defeat, the PM will formally resign to King Charles on Friday morning before Sir Keir is asked by the monarch to form the next government.
The Labour leader will then appoint his Cabinet before finalising a raft of new laws likely to be announced to Parliament on July 17.
Meanwhile, likes of Penny Mordaunt, Grant Shapps, Suella Braverman, Steve Baker and Robert Jenrick are all facing battles to keep their seats.
In Scotland, the SNP are expected to secure 10 seats with Plaid Cymru in Wales on four.
Britain will wake up to political earthquake
By Kate Ferguson, Political Editor Sun on Sunday
BRITAIN will wake up tomorrow to a political earthquake.
If the exit poll is right, Labour have stormed to victory with their biggest majority in their 100 year history.
It is a jaw-dropping turnaround from the dark days of the Jeremy Corbyn era of 2019, when the party suffered their worst result in history.
The Tories look set to be decimated. The most successful political party in Europe has been reduced to just a rump of 131 MPs.
Be in no doubt – this is a nightmare for the Conservative Party. They now face the painful task of having to rebuild and choose a new leader.
But the big story of the night is Nigel Farage’s Reform party, who are expected to win a staggering 13 seats.
This political maverick has lobbed a grenade into Westminster – and he is only just getting started.
Reform is expected to win the key seat of Hartlepool – the Red Wall seat in Labour’s old heartlands which turned Tory under Boris Johnson.
Nigel, 60, the godfather of Brexit, is a charismatic leader well trained in waging war on ‘political elites’ from his days in the European Parliament.
He had run and failed to become an MP seven times before.
He has finally won on the eighth attempt – and looks set to have a dozen Reform MPs with him.
He has the potential to change the face of politics forever,
Sir Keir Starmer and the next leader of the Tories – whoever that may be – should brace themselves.