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The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford

When teaching British political history, I usually stress two points. First, the British Conservative Party have been among the most successful office-seeking parties in electoral history. Second, British Labour struggles mightily to obtain power. Both throw into relief the earth-shattering nature of this landslide win for Keir Starmer’s Labour party.

With Labour predicted to win by a historic margin, here are some of the most dramatic victories of previous times

Britain looks likely to see a change of government this week, swinging leftwards back to the centre ground and the Labour party after 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.

Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years

Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand

Guardian analysis of messaging in post-war Tory and Labour manifestos reveals shifting political focus

The comparator isn’t any other Labour leader – it’s the Tory Edward Heath, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

From a Norwegian whose gleeful words are still aped today, to some brilliant rugby league apoplexy, via golfing disbelief and more

Labour’s leadership needn’t struggle to define the ideology; it’s in its very constitution

Sticking to the Tories’ nonsensical fiscal rules, as it says it will, would be a political and economic mistake, says the Guardian’s economic editor Larry Elliott