Voters are already calling for Jeremy Corbyn to resign as Labour leader after exit polls predicted the party’s worst result at a General Election since the 1930s.
The Conservatives are on track to win a substantial majority with 368 seats, making them the UK’s largest party and handing them complete control of the House of Commons.
The SNP are set to take 55 of Scotland’s 59 seats, up from 35 in 2017.
On Twitter, the hashtag #CorbynOut is already trending.
Some Labour politicians are among those already pointing the finger of blame for the predicted poor result at Labour’s leader.
Labour’s Edinburgh South candidate Ian Murray: “Every door I knocked on, and my team and I spoke to 11,000 people, mentioned Corbyn. Not Brexit but Corbyn.
“I’ve been saying this for years. The outcome is that we’ve let the country down and we must change course and fast.”
Labour MEP Seb Dance tweeted: “I remember very well the canvass I did in a seat Labour hoped (still hopes!) to get. Huge anger at Brexit – they loathed Johnson. But they feared one thing more: Jeremy Corbyn.
“Door after door after door.”
I remember very well the canvass I did in a seat Labour hoped (still hopes!) to get. Huge anger at Brexit – they loathed Johnson. But they feared one thing more: Jeremy Corbyn.
Door after door after door.
— Seb Dance MEP ??? (@SebDance) December 12, 2019
On the doorstep the big issue in this election was Jeremy Corbyn not Brexit
The over-riding voter concern was to reject Corbyn and Corbynism. Alas, it simply wasn’t possible to focus attention on Brexit and austerity – and only at the end of the campaign on Johnson
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 12, 2019
Labour peer Andrew Adonis tweeted: “On the doorstep in this election, the biggest issue by far was Jeremy Corbyn. Essentially the election was a referendum on Corbyn. I had more doorstep conversations about the IRA than the fate of Brexit.”
John Mann, the former Labour MP and independent adviser to the UK government on anti-semitism, tweeted: “Every doorstep, every workplace for the last 18 months has rejected everything to do with Corbyn, Corbynism and the cult of Corbyn.
“They can’t say they weren’t warned. Repeatedly.”
Has he gone yet? #CorbynOut
Nine years of Tory Government and Labour can't raise a fart of a challenge. Don't believe the excuses. Corbyn had no credible position on Brexit. And he was simply deemed unelectable. @jeremycorbyn#ThatsYourAllotment— Des Kelly (@DesKellyBTS) December 12, 2019
I blame @UKLabour totally. You knew your leader was unelectable yet you let him face the electorate for the second time. You knew you were losing ground, you didn’t change. Labour, you have given our country to the Tories. Well done. #CorbynOut
— Richard de Lioncourt #FBPE ?? (@Geestar86) December 12, 2019
No exit poll has been more than 15 seats wrong about the number of MPs of the biggest group.
I promised @UKLabour would run the biggest people powered campaign our country has ever seen.
And you, our members and supporters, have done just that.
You're the heart of our party, and you have campaigned tirelessly to win so we can a build a fairer country.
I thank you all. pic.twitter.com/Pic0pw9FCU
— Jeremy Corbyn | Vote today ? (@jeremycorbyn) December 12, 2019
