Irish Examiner view: When the numbers don’t lie

Since 2005, the exit poll has predicted the number of parliamentary seats of the winning party to within an average of four

Newly elected British prime minister  Keir Starmer gives a speech at his official London residence at No 10 Downing Street for the first time after the Labour party won a landslide victory at the 2024 general election.

It took less than 90 minutes, and the first result, for the three big takeaways of the exit poll on the 2024 British general election to demonstrate their validity.

Labour was heading for a landslide.