After 14 years of Conservative rule, the Labour party has swept to power in the UK election, gaining more than two hundred seats in the House of Commons. It was a disastrous night for now former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak who admitted his Tory party's worst perfomance for nearly 200 years was "sobering".
So exactly what message have the voters sent to new Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer - and what does this result mean for the UK at home, and on the global stage?
In this episode of The Agenda, Juliet Mann speaks to George Pascoe-Watson, Founding Partner of Schillings Communications and former Politcal Editor of The Sun newspaper, Robert Oulds, Director of The Bruges Group and Patrick Diamond, Professor of Public Policy at the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London.