Britain’s Labour on track for a huge majority, exit poll suggests [Video]

Britain’s Labour Party was headed for a huge majority in a parliamentary election on Thursday, an exit poll suggested, against a gloomy backdrop of economic malaise, mounting distrust in institutions and a fraying social fabric.The poll released moments after voting closed indicated that center-left Labour’s leader Keir Starmer will be the country’s next prime minister, leading the party to power less than five years after it suffered its worst defeat in almost a century.A jaded electorate looks to have delivered a crushing verdict for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s center-right Conservative Party, leaving it in disarray after it has been in power since 2010.“Nothing has gone well in the last 14 years,” said London voter James Erskine, who was optimistic for change in the hours before polls closed. “I just see this as the potential for a seismic shift, and that’s what I’m hoping for.”While the suggested result appears to buck …