I’ll add that even tho Sir Keir will be PM by a Labour landslide, Starmer got substantially fewer votes in his constituency than he did last election. Those votes went to an indy candidate who challenged KS’s support for Israel’s war. And this cost Labour seats elsewhere, too.
Are there any lessons for US election watchers in tonight’s UK results? 🤔I’ll note this: The BBC has just revised down the size of Labour’s victory. In several of those constituencies, it appears Labour lost votes to candidates expressly running against UK support for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.