The United Kingdom will have a new Prime Minister after former chief prosecutor Keir Starmer won a landslide victory Friday over incumbent Rishi Sunak.
Sunak moved to hold the elections early in light of positive economic news, but voters instead handed his party their worst loss in election history, according to The Associated Press (AP).
Starmer’s center-left Labour Party won 412 of the 650 available seats in the U.K.’s House of Commons. Sunak’s Conservatives won just 121. Their previous low was 156 in 1906, according to The AP.
Starmer becomes the first member of the Labour Party to win the position since Tony Blair in 2005. (RELATED: Trump Congratulates Nigel Farage On Winning Seat In Parliament)
The victory ends a 14-year run of conservative leadership, which included Theresa May, Boris Johnson and the short-lived leadership of Liz Truss.
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