RECAP General election 2024: Sir Keir Starmer appoints Cabinet as Labour MPs arrive at Downing Street
Sir Keir Starmer will be the UK’s new Labour prime minister after a Conservative rout saw former premier Liz Truss and a dozen serving Cabinet members lose their seats
Results are coming in General Election 2024, with a sweeping Labour majority expected to send Sir Keir Starmer to Downing Street.
North of the Border, Labour are looking to end more than a decade of SNP domination at Westminster.
John Swinney’s party won 48 seats in 2019, while the Tories took six and the Liberal Democrats four. Labour was reduced to a single MP.
Sir Keir Starmer’s party – led in Scotland by Anas Sarwar – has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years against a backdrop of turmoil for the Conservatives, putting Labour in pole position this time around.
But which party will win a series of key seats, as those within Scotland, in particular, remain on a knife edge. The Scotsman is here to bring you all the very latest.
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