The Labour Party sailed past the 326-seat threshold for a parliamentary majority early on Friday morning, putting it on course for a landslide victory against outgoing Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.

The UK’s Prime Minister-elect Keir Starmer has promised to kick-start an era of “national renewal” after his Labour Party brought an end to 14 years of Conservative rule.

Although Labour has won a landslide, in three constituencies (Dewsbury and Batley, Leicester South, Blackburn) where Gaza has been a key issue, the party has lost what should have been safe seats to independents.

In other seats, pro-Palestinian campaigners took serious chunks out of Labour majorities. Keir Starmer’s share of the vote was down 17 points in his Holborn and St Pancras constituency. Andrew Feinstein, an independent challenging him, came second with more than 7,000 votes.