A resounding defeat for conservatives. Labour’s win in the UK’s parliamentary elections ended 14 years of conservative government securing two-thirds of the seats in the House of Commons. The landslide victory marked a huge turnaround for the party, four and-a-half years after Keir Starmer took over as leader, and less than five since Jeremy Corbyn led them to its worst defeat since the 1930s.

To discuss:

• Klaus Larres is a history and international affairs professor with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• David Tereshchuk is a veteran journalist and commentator.
• Kevin Matthews is a history professor at George Mason University.
• Wayne Fitzgerald is the leader of Britain’s Peterborough City Council and Chair of the Peterborough Conservative Association.