General election 2024: UK awaits exit poll; Theresa May given peerage in surprise dissolution honours list – latest live news

General election 2024: UK awaits exit poll; Theresa May given peerage in surprise dissolution honours list – latest live news

Exit poll at 10pm BST to give indication of election outcome ahead of overnight vote counts

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Downing Street has made the surprise decision to release a dissolution honours list tonight. It includes peerages for the former prime minister Theresa May and former chairman of the Conservative backbench 1922 committee Sir Graham Brady.

Earlier this week we reported that Rishi Sunak was worried about losing his seat. He represents Richmond and Northallerton in Yorkshire, where at the last election (when the seat was called Richmond, and the boundaries were slightly different) he had a majority of 27,210.

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