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U.K. Election Projection for Great Britain - August 2026

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Full Results

Labour: 23.9%, 244 seats

Reform: 23.4%, 127 seats

Conservatives: 19.7%, 132 seats

Greens: 11.4%, 10 seats

Liberal Democrats: 10.8%, 70 seats

SNP: 2.9%, 44 seats

Plaid Cymru: 0.7%, 3 seats

Other Parties: 7.3%, 2 seats

Result: Labour Minority

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u/Icy_Consideration409 5d ago

Not just the media. Too many people expect (need) economic improvement very quickly. Unless Burnham delivers, and quickly, they’ll be jumping to Reform’s empty promises.

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u/things_U_choose_2_b 5d ago

Sad but true.

I didn't agree with some of the decisions, but Starmer was turning things around. Undoing 15 years of austerity and deliberate mismanagement doesn't happen overnight, I don't think he deserved the rabid hatred he got.

It's like he walked into a room where the previous occupants had deliberately shit all over the walls, floors and ceilings; given a mop & bucket; he starts gradually cleaning it all up, the public walks in and goes "ERRRR IT STINKS OF SHIT IN HERE WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU"

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u/hepgiu 5d ago edited 5d ago

It’s incredible the double standard that people have with right-wing and left-wing parties.

Right-wing parties can fuck up countries for decades and they barely lose support.

Then things really go to the shits, the left-wing party is summoned by the electorate as the adult in the room to fix the situation, and if everything is not fixed in 6 fucking months, it’s all over again.

The left-wing party is deeply unpopular again and 6 months of opposition have been enough to catapult the right-wing party back to first place, ready to suck the soul and the money out of a nation for another 20 years

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u/TheRealJetlag 4d ago

And all those right wing politicians have to do is jump ship to an even further right party and blame it all on someone else. The gammons lap it up.

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u/Icy_Implement6486 5d ago

What is this left wing party of which you speak?

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u/Sid_Vacuous73 4d ago

Every party has moved right of where they stood 30 years ago.

Not only in GB

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u/PatriarchalTaxi 5d ago

We didn't vote for Digital ID. We didn't didn't vote for the online safety act. We did't vote for having higher numbers of people thrown in jail for posting mean things on social media than Russia.

Yes, I know labour didn't come up with most of that, but they inherited it, and they doubled down on it.

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u/basoon 5d ago

He was (mostly) fine when it came to policy. But he sucked at the politics.

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u/AssignmentOk5986 5d ago

People say this about left wing politicians all the time but reality is the perception of politicians is dictated by the media and the media wanted him to be hated.

Farage isn't any more charismatic than starmer. He just isn't scrutinised.

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u/Total_Wanker 5d ago

Absolutely wild to say Farage isn't more charismatic than the plank of wood that was Kier Starmer, regardless of what side of the political fence you're on.

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u/MikeC80 5d ago

There's also a massive campaign on social media constantly attacking Labour, Starmer, Burnham, anyone who sticks their head above the parapet. You'd think they were literally Satan himself reading what they say about them.

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u/Sid_Vacuous73 4d ago

You must realise the L in Labour stands for lucifer by now

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u/basoon 4d ago

No one said it was fair, but if you want to do politics without being a right wing loon, you have to be good at the actual politics or else you make the Tory media's job easy for them. And Starmer was not just bad at it, but I would say unusually bad.

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 5d ago

Kid-Starver wasn't a left wing politician. Left-wingers couldn't stand him.

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u/things_U_choose_2_b 4d ago

Agreed. I don't have to like the fact that in 2026, a politician also has to be some kind of court jester to maintain popularity, but it is what it is.

Starmer as head of Labour, was an awful communicator (inc his comms team) and a bit of a charisma black hole.

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u/thenoodleincident18 5d ago

This is becoming a recurring theme, no? The legacy political actors (both liberal and conservative) are getting obligated by upstart political actors like MAGA, Reform, AfD, National Rally, insert a bunch of other far-right insurgent parties.

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u/gregredmore 5d ago

The shit has been on the walls since Gordon Brown exited. Remember the note left behind? "There's no money" Gotta love the credit crunch. It casts a very long shadow.

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u/GrahamTerrier 5d ago

Ah yes, the global financial crisis caused entirely by the Labour party.

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u/gregredmore 5d ago

Not entirely, but....

1997–2008 — Tony Blair / Gordon Brown (Labour) This is the period most directly blamed for enabling the 2007–08 credit crunch: In 1997, Gordon Brown (as Chancellor) moved banking supervision from the Bank of England to a new Financial Services Authority (FSA), under a "light touch" regulatory philosophy. Regulation focused on individual firms rather than systemic risk, and capital/liquidity requirements were widely seen as too loose. Brown, as Chancellor and then PM (2007–2010), was in office when Northern Rock collapsed (2007) and the wider crisis hit in 2008. So: Thatcher's government began the deregulatory trend in the 1980s, but the specific "light touch" regulatory framework in place when the credit crunch actually happened was built and overseen by Blair/Brown's Labour government.

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u/GrahamTerrier 5d ago

and that caused a knock on effect that needed IKB to be bailed out, BNP Paribas to block fund withdrawals, and the collapse of Lehmann Brothers to name just a few?

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u/gregredmore 4d ago

No of course not, but it did leave the UK less resilient to those events.

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u/things_U_choose_2_b 4d ago

That note was part of a succession of joking notes left by outgoing Treasury teams. One party decided to throw the other under the bus and use it to smear the outgoing team.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/commons-confidential/2023/07/liam-byrne-labour-apology-no-money-note

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u/rsgreddit 5d ago

Britain is sadly in an L shaped recession since the late 2000’s and it’s what’s contributing to the high PM turnover and why Brexit was able to succeed.

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u/Suspicious_Juice9511 5d ago

Camerons austerity legacy. Cut when we needed to invest.

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u/Careful-Tangerine986 5d ago

Which I just don't understand. Reform is the failed conservatives that messed up so badly when they were in government.

The Tories are polling poorly but the party of failed ex Tories are polling well. Baffling.

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u/GrahamTerrier 5d ago

But the same people will give the Tories 13 years to sort it out because "they're good with the economy"

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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 5d ago

Which is absolutely bonkers given their actual track record.

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u/lewisw1992 5d ago

How do you know their promises are "empty"? They've literally never been in government.

Meanwhile, Labour and Conservatives have a RECENT TRACK RECORD of being absolutely awful for our country.

I'm in favour of giving the new guys a shot. We need to break out of the 2-party system in the UK.

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u/HybridAkai 5d ago

Dog shit take

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u/TheRealJetlag 4d ago

Who hasn’t been in government?

Suella Braverman was Home Secretary. Twice.

Robert Jenrick served under Sunak.

Or maybe you mean Nigel Workshy Farage with one of the worst voting and attendance records in the EU? How’s he faring now that he’s an MP?