UK election: Conservatives sweep to victory

Conservatives defied predictions to trounce Labour and win outright majority in parliament

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David Cameron is back in Downing Street
for a second term
The full UK election results (as of 2:40 PM GMT, 18:40 UAE)
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM
Ed Miliband
Nick Clegg has resigned
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg and wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez.
Nigel Farage
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 1:10 PM
WESTMINSTER, LONDON:
Ed Miliband, the party's leader, will step down by 12 noon
Reporting by Mick O'Reilly, Senior Associate Editor
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 11:40 AM
Conservative candidate Andrea Jenkyns shakes hands with Britain's opposition Labour Party shadow Chancellor Ed Balls after defeating him.
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 10:30 AM
The pound rallied
Volunteers count ballot papers inside the English Institute of Sport.
Nick Clegg and his wife Miriam Gonzalez Durantez
George Galloway lost
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 9:16 AM
London Mayor and Conservative Party parliamentary candidate for Uxbridge and Ruislip South, Boris Johnson and his wife Marina Wheeler.

Britain's Labour Party leader Ed Miliband and his wife Justine arrive for the general election count in Doncaster, Britain
Agencies
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 6:41 AM
Agencies
WESTMINSTER, LONDON:
David Cameron
Reporting by Mick O'Reilly, Senior Associate Editor
UK election results
May 8, 2015 at 6:18 AM
PAISLEY, United Kingdom
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WESTMINSTER, LONDON:
Reporitng by Mick O'Reilly, Senior Associate Editor

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