Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Friday retained his Islington North seat as an independent despite being expelled from the party, which is set to rule the UK after winning the general election. Corbyn won the Islington constituency with 24,120 votes, 7,247 more votes than Labour's Indian-origin candidate Praful Nargund, who secured 16,873 votes. The 75-year-old former Labour leader served the ward as a Labour member since 1983, winning the seat 10 times at elections. But at this contest, he stood as an independent candidate after the Labour Party whip was suspended from him in 2020, The Independent newspaper reported. He faced a tight race, despite winning a majority of 26,000 - 1,180 more than this year - at the last general election in 2019 as Labour leader. British-Indian Prime Minister Rishi Sunak conceded defeat on Friday as his Conservative Party was on course for one of its worst election defeats. The Keir Starmer-led Labour Party hurtled towards a landslide victory in
According to the exit poll, which is often quite close to the final tally, Labour could win as many as 410 seats, comfortably crossing the half way 326 mark and notching up a 170-seat majority
Keir Starmer, the Centre-Left Labour Party's leader, is the current favourite to win UK's July 4 election and replace Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister
Public survey conducted by YouGov shows that the Opposition Labour Party is heading towards a landslide victory
However simplistic or misleading, Johnson's message may prove too appealing to an electorate that's tired of Brexit, and wary of what Corbyn is selling
The poll put Conservatives on 314 seats- 12 short of a majority- and Labour on 266 seats
PM Theresa May's majority in the House of Commons at the time was 10 - with 330 seats out of 650