If the exit poll is right, this election will transform British politics | Martin Kettle

It looks like a triumph for Boris Johnson, and an epochal collapse for Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour

General election 2019 – live news

For the last four UK general elections, bar 2015, the 10pm exit poll on election day has been almost exactly correct, even if sometimes the predictions have been a shock to many experts. So the likelihood is that the pollsters have got it right again in 2019. But whereas in 2017 their correct prediction of a hung parliament guaranteed a embattled legislature, the 2019 prediction may even transform British politics.

The Jeremy Corbyn project has taken what is surely a terminal beating

Related: UK general election 2019: exit poll predicts 86-seat Conservative majority – live news

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