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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain's main opposition Labour party, greets workers at a polling station in London. His party's vision to remodel the country along socialist lines, but looks to have led his party to its worst defeat since 1935 as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's ruling party appeared on course for a sweeping victory in Thursday's snap election, an exit poll showed. IMAGES
Seven MPs from Britain's opposition Labour Party announce they are breaking away and forming an independent group in protest at the party's support for Brexit and its failure to stamp out anti-Semitism. SOUNDBITE from Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree
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Leaders from the Party of European Socialists, including head of the British Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn and President of PES Sergei Stanishev, gathered in Paris' Bourse Palace, Thursday, for talks on how to move forward after the UK's vote to leave the EU.
In his first speech of the year, UK opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer says an election is "one thing that we can be sure is coming", adding that he is "ready for it" as the Labour leader outlines his party's election year pitch. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call a general election at some point in 2024, but exactly when is becoming a source of increasingly fevered speculation among political observers. SOUNDBITE