Sir Keir Starmer looks set to be moving into 10 Downing Street on Friday after the national exit poll predicted a Labour landslide.

It looks as if the Conservatives will be left with a fraction of the MPs they had before - it predicts Labour will have 410 seats with the Tories on just 131. That would leave Labour with an overall majority of 170.

The Liberal Democrats are predicted to win 61 seats and the Green Party to add a second seat.

That would give Labour a majority of 170 - but one of the most eye-catching predictions is that Nigel Farage's Reform UK party could end up with 13 MPs.

The exit poll suggests the scale of the Conservative defeat could be even greater than in 1997.

In that year the Tories won 165 seats - but Labour had 418 seats.

In that year the Tories still won five of the seven Suffolk constituencies although their majorities were much smaller than usual.

In Bury St Edmunds, the Conservatives had a majority of just 368 over Labour. And in total more Suffolk residents voted Labour than Tory that year.

There have been boundary and demographic changes since then - but if the Conservatives' performance is worse than it was in 1997 some previously safe seats for the party could be under threat.

What is also significant is the number of new Conservative candidates there are in the county - four of the seats have new hopefuls who have not had the chance to build up the personal vote that long-term MPs may have.

Another factor is that usually-marginal seats can end up with the largest majorities in a game-changing vote like this.

On these figures the Labour majority in Ipswich could well be the largest in the county - with any Conservatives who do win seeing their margin of victory slashed.