'History Man Keir Starmer spray painted Britain red with a phenomenal Labour landslide'

History Man Keir Starmer spray painted Britain red with a phenomenal Labour landslide in a British huge political earthquake.

To win a Tony Blair sized landslide of around 170 MPs - we await a few results - after inheriting the fewest since 1935 from Jeremy Corbyn is record breaking, doubling his party’s seats to top 400.

Britain’s 58th Prime Minister, only Labour’s seventh, stated repeatedly he has no magic wand to fix the country’s big problems inherited after 14 years from the smashed Conservatives but Starmer’s proved an electoral magician.

The hard work of Government starts now and after he’s kissed the King’s hand, addressed the nation from the steps of Downing Street and appointed Ministers into a Cabinet it’ll be sleeves rolled up.

Because early impressions matter and Starmer’s absolutely right to stress Labour must be servants of the people, not be seduced as the Tories were into appearing to be their masters.

Delivering changes to public services and restoring integrity in Government are urgent, making early progress on the first and instituting immediately the second.

Starmer securing a handsome majority with a much smaller share of the 40% vote Jeremy Corbyn lost with in 2017 signals a huge drive is require to unite Britain behind the new Government.

A win is a win is a win under the electoral system we have and the result will be accepted with widespread goodwill shown to Starmer but extending the honeymoon reduces the risk of later divorce.

Yet this feels a two-election, double-term, 10-year Labour era should Starmer over achieve never mind deliver what it said on the Labour tin.

The seismic split on the Right of British politics between the crushed Tories and Thatcherite shouty Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is unlikely to be healed easily.

The Conservatives will be plunged into a leadership battle and civil war for the soul of the party, routed Rishi Sunak leaving a smouldering ruin.

He kept his Richmond seat but predecessor Liz Truss lost hers and the constituencies of the three other Tory PMs these past 14 years - David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson - all fell in a damning judgment on the Conservative era.

Tory survivors huddling together in Parliament next week will be fatally split between those desperate to invited Farage into the party and those chucking rocks at him, a group itself in two camps.

Some just hate everything Farage stands for. Others were Tory allies who’ll never forgive the Reform leader for threatening their seats and costing colleagues their jobs.

Farage himself, elected at the eighth attempt, has his Westminster bridgehead as one of four Reform MPs. That’s the same as the Greens and Gaza independents if we include Jeremy Corbyn.

Ukip gained more votes in 2015 than Reform’s 2024 total. Farage typically exaggerated his party’s prospects of high office but he will be a nightmare for the Tories and a headache for Labour.

And let’s not forget Scotland. The massacre of the SNP is a monumental blow to the independence movement. Labour’s triumph is the delicious main act but this election has many important sideshows.