Nuanced analysis from Anushka Asthana: many Muslim voters she met reporting in areas with relatively large Muslim populations cited eg Labour's refusal to ditch 2 child benefit cap, not just their line on Gaza - communities are not monoliths, people rarely vote on one issue alone
Looks like Starmer’s changed Labour may well have fewer total votes than Labour got in that supposedly worse than 1935 election in 2019. Trouble ahead.
Losing Uxbridge, South West Norfolk, Maidenhead and Witney all in one night means the Tories no longer hold any of the seats of the Prime Ministers they had between May 2010 and October 2022.
John Curtice: Labour's vote share is "up by just under 2% across the UK. This is entirely as a result of a 19% increase in support in Scotland. In Wales, the party's vote has actually fallen back by 4%, while in England it is largely unchanged on 2019." https://t.co/JUyoAgMbi7
Labour's share of the vote is now just 36.2% - all of 1 point above Labour's 2005 performance but with an enormous result thanks to the stupidity of FPTP
BREAKING: Labour have lost a further two seats to pro-Gaza Independent Candidates.
Blackburn and Dewsbury and Batley.
The party has already lost Leicester South.
Birmingham Ladywood also looking tight.