UK Election highlights: Keir Starmer appoints David Lammy as foreign secretary

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Liberal Democrats' leader Ed Davey has retained his seat in Kingston and Surbiton.

In his victory speech, he was quoted as saying by The Guardian, “Now I don’t know if you could tell, but I have rather enjoyed this campaign. But What I’ve loved most is not the bungee jumping… it’s speaking to people.. about the challenges they face and their hopes for the future.”

During his campaign, Davey engaged in various activities, such as bungee jumping, surfing, and, perhaps most challenging of all, a Zumba class.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Labour Party’s Derek Twigg has won Widnes and Halewood with 61.61%. Reform’s Jake Fraser came second, fairly far behind, with 18.52%, according to The Guardian report.

Turnout was 52.97%.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: George Galloway, leader of the Workers Party for Britain, has been defeated by Labour in Rochdale, following his earlier victory in a May by-election.

The incoming MP for Rochdale will be Paul Waugh.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Labour Party leader and Prime Ministerial candidate Keir Starmer has arrived at the count for Holborn and St Pancras with his wife, Victoria.

The exit poll prediction suggests that Keir Starmer is likely to win and become the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a landslide victory, potentially securing 410 seats.

Counting is underway, and the Labour Party has so far won 34 seats.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: The Labour gains Vale of Glamorgan, Leigh & Atherton, and Colchester from Conservatives.

Vale of Glamorgan - Kanishka Narayan

Leigh & Atherton - Jim Plott

Colchester - Pam Cox

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Labour’s Anneliese Midgley wins in Knowsley and Shaun Davies wins Telford, according to PA.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Labour’s Rachel Reeves, poised to become the first female Treasury chief if her party wins the UK election 2024, acknowledged the daunting task ahead.

"I have no illusions about the magnitude of the challenge we're facing," she told Sky News, as reported by the Associated Press.

Reeves highlighted the Conservatives' grim economic legacy, noting that the U.K.'s debt stands at 100% of national income and the tax burden is at its highest in seven decades.

She emphasized that immediate turnaround cannot be guaranteed.

Reeves outlined that the primary goal of a Labour government would be to ignite economic growth.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: Tom Gordon of the Liberal Democrats has secured victory in Harrogate & Knaresborough, marking the party's first win in the 2024 general election, according to The Guardian report.

Additionally, the Liberal Democrats assert that they have defeated Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, in Chichester.

UK Election Results 2024 LIVE: A spokesperson for the Liberal Democrats quoted by The Guardian is confident that the party has defeated Gillian Keegan, the education secretary, in Chichester.

Chichester is turning Liberal Democrat orange, marking Gillian Keegan as the first Cabinet Minister of the evening to lose her seat.

The Conservatives have failed the residents of Chichester for an extended period. With this seat traditionally held by Conservatives for a century, the Liberal Democrats' victory here is a remarkable accomplishment, unseating the education secretary.

UK Election 2024 LIVE: The exit poll results indicated that after 14 years in power under five different prime ministers, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives are likely to see their seats in the 650-seat House of Commons reduced to 131. This would represent the Tories' worst result in their two-century history and leave the party in disarray.

Meanwhile, the Labour Party is projected to win 410 seats, well above the 326 needed for a majority.