LONDON: Labor Party chief and candidate for premiership Ed Miliband expected to stand down as party chief after losing elections.
Miliband has arrived at the Labour Party’s London headquarters, where senior staff were said to be close to tears.
He is currently speaking to staff and is expected to make a public statement shortly.
A large crowd of supporters greeted him and his wife Justine to claps and cheers.
Labour achieved nearly 100 fewer seats than the Tories despite all the polls saying the parties were neck-and-neck.
Although the party did not lose many seats to the Tories, it suffered an almost wipeout in Scotland at the hands of the SNP.
Up till now with 635 of 650 seats declared, is Conservative 329, Labour 234, the Lib Dems eight, the SNP 56, Plaid Cymru three, UKIP one, the Greens one and others 19.
Conservative party just needed four seats to form the government.
There was an electoral earthquake in Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP seeing unprecedented swings and decimating Labour north of the border.
The SNP surge left Labour predicted to emerge with just 239 seats, a collapse in support from the 258 they received in 2010 under Gordon Brown.
