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1:35 very very important You can't become Prime Minister of the whole country by relying on just a number of big cities. You become Prime Minister by gaining broad support all across the country. That's why Sir Keir Starmer is Prime Minister and Jeremy Corbyn is not.
Labour was only 10% ahead of the Tories in vote share, usually only enough for them to have a small working majority. Below a certain threshold, the loss of seats becomes significant if your vote share is fairly evenly spread out across the nation, like the Tories' would have been. A further problem is tactical voting with Labour voters switching to LibDem to oust the Tories, where this made more sense. As said, Reform seemed to attract mostly disillusioned Tory voters, unlike its predecessor UKIP which seemed to also draw large numbers of Labour voters. The vote was splintered across three or even four contenders in each seat, and a number of seats were won with fewer than a third of votes cast, usually guaranteeing second place, but not a winning position. This has given rise to a far larger number of marginal seats, making future election predictions even more uncertain.