{"id":10590,"date":"2024-07-05T17:46:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10590"},"modified":"2024-07-05T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T05:46:20","slug":"live-crying-out-for-change-labour-heads-for-landslide-win-in-british-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10590","title":{"rendered":"Live: &#8216;Crying out for change&#8217;: Labour heads for landslide win in British election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative leader and former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has concedes the UK election to Labour and says it has been a &#8220;difficult night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He has called Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there is much to learn&#8230; and I take responsibility for the loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The governing Conservatives are facing major losses to their left and right as Reform surges and Labour cruises to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is expected to win 410 seats with the Conservatives on 144, the BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Polls opened at 7am (Thursday 6pm NZ time) and closed at 10pm on Thursday night (9am this morning NZ time).<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Follow the results with our election liveblog:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>VIA RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative leader and former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has concedes the UK election to Labour and says it has been a &#8220;difficult night&#8221;. He has called Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer to congratulate him on his victory. &#8220;The British people have delivered a sobering verdict tonight, there is much to learn&#8230; and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,208,5,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-lifestyle","category-politics","category-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10592,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10590\/revisions\/10592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}