Labour is on course for one of the biggest Commons majorities in history with the official exit poll pointing to a crushing defeat for the Tories.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has been elected in Clacton, winning a parliamentary seat at his eighth attempt.
Meanwhile Defence Secretary Grant Shapps and Alex Chalk, the justice secretary, are the first two cabinet ministers to lose their seats with several others expected to follow.
Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have both retained their seats for Labour but the party’s former leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has held his Islington North seat, standing as an independent candidate.
Labour is expected to win 410 seats while Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives are set to fall to 131 seats, down from 365 five years ago when Boris Johnson secured a 80-seat majority.
The Liberal Democrats are forecast to win 61, with Reform UK on 13, the Green Party on 2, the SNP on 10 and Plaid Cymru on 4.
It will give Sir Keir a 170-seat majority, just shy of Tony Blair’s 1997 record of 179.
