The Conservatives have lost the election and should stand aside for a Labour minority government, according to Jeremy Corbyn, who said: “We are ready to serve this country.”
The Labour leader reiterated his call for Theresa May to resign as Prime Minister and said his party had achieved an “incredible result”, putting on more than three million votes and gaining seats all over the UK.
“I think it’s pretty clear who won this election,” he said at Labour’s headquarters in central London.
He issued a video message saying he is ready for government – even though Labour won 40% of the vote compared with the Conservatives’ 43% and finished with 57 fewer MPs than the Tories.
He said: “We are ready to do everything we can to put our programme into operation. There isn’t a parliamentary majority for anybody at the present time, the party that has lost in this election is the Conservative Party.”
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