Keir Starmer (left) and Rishi Sunak (right) made their last pitches on the campaign yesterday. Photo: AFP
Polls have just closed in the UK where the British Labour Party seems poised to sweep to power.
While the official count now begins, exit polls can now be released.
Opinion polls during the six week summer campaign called by a soggy Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on the steps of Number 10 had Keir Starmer's Labour party winning even more than his predecessor Tony Blair in his 1997 landslide win.
The Conservatives have spent the last 14 years in power, but those same polls found the party could be on track for its worst result in its near-200 year history.
Kathryn speaks with Tim Bale, a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, whose most recent book published last year was The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation.
