Former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who crashed the economy, lost her seat and Nigel Farage, a friend of Donald Trump, will join U.K. Parliament for the first time.

Britain's Labor Party won a landslide victory Friday in a general election that saw the ruling Conservative Party of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak swept from power after 14 years in government.

Shares exposed to the British domestic economy briefly saw their best gains of the year, as the Labour Party’s landslide election victory spurred hopes that political stability could support a potential rebound in economic growth.

The pound gained on Thursday against a broadly weaker dollar which was hurt by soft U.S. economic data, as Britons voted in a parliamentary election that investors hope will bring some stability to British politics.

British voters cast their ballots Thursday in an election widely expected to hand an overwhelming parliamentary majority to Keir Starmer's Labour Party.

Voters in the U.K. have cast their ballots in a national election to choose the 650 lawmakers who will sit in Parliament for the next five years. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak surprised his own party on May 22 when he called the election,

LONDON (Reuters) -British stock and government bond prices rose on Friday after the centre-left Labour Party surged to a comprehensive win in a parliamentary election. The bluechip FTSE 100 index rose 0.

Voters head to the polls for the UK general election after the last campaign day was dominated by more opinion polls projecting an historic victory for Keir Starmer and even Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper endorsing the opposition Labour Party rather than Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives.