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UK election live updates: Labour Party wins enough seats to form majority gov


The Labour Party has officially won enough seats in the UK's 2024 general election to have a majority in parliament, as vote counting continues. Labour Leader Keir Starmer will become prime minister and can form a majority government.

British lawmaker Lee Anderson, left and Mark Butcher, centre right, Reform UK candidate, travel on an open top bus, during a campaign event in Blackpool, England, Thursday March 28, 2024. Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer, centre, and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, right, walks during a visit to a school during the General Election campaign, in Northamptonshire, England, Monday, June 24, 2024. ShareVoters in the north London borough of Islington started to gather even before the polling station opened as the historically Labour Party stronghold tantalizingly considers the possibility of a change in government after 14 years of Conservative rule.

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