Rishi Sunak is to quit as Conservative leader and has apologised for their crushing election defeat.

"I am sorry, I have given this job my all but you have sent a clear signal," said Sunak, making his final Downing Street speech after overseeing the worst election defeat in modern times for the Tories.

"I have heard your anger and disappointment and I take responsibility."

It was a catastrophic night for his Conservative Party as Labour's landslide UK general election win ends 14 years of Tory government.

If you want to see more of Sunak's leaving speech, you can here.

Away from Wales, we're expecting beaten Tory leader Rishi Sunak to appear outside No 10 Downing Street very soon.

He's still officially the prime minister for now, but will soon tender his resignation to the King.

You can follow UK-wide coverage here or watch on the BBC News channel.

The Reform Party has eaten into the Labour vote in a number of seats.

Nia Griffith's majority in Llanelli was cut to barely 1,500 with a swing to Reform of more than 13%.

Chris Bryant's majority in the Rhondda and Ogmore constituency - subject to boundary changes - was cut by nearly 10,000. Reform trailed by 7,790 votes. The turnout was below 50%.

Reform was second in Neath and Swansea East as Carolyn Harris held the seat with a reduced majority.

Labour lost votes to both Reform and Plaid Cymru in Swansea West but Torsten Bell won the seat for the party with a slightly reduced 8,500 majority.

Returning four MPs to Westminster is a "stunning" result for Plaid Cymru, according to leader Rhun ap Iorwerth.

He says it's a "testament to the real warmth and enthusiasm we have been feeling on the doorstep for the last six weeks".

"Despite the tough context of an unprecedented Labour wave, this is the party's best result in a general election," he says.

"People were consistently telling us that they were desperate to see the back of the Tories but that Labour weren't offering real change either."

The party won both its target seats of Ynys Môn and Caerfyrddin from the Conservatives.

And it held Ceredigion Preseli with a hugely increased majority, with Ben Lake returned to Parliament, and Liz Saville Roberts also retained Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

Steve Duffy
BBC Wales

These maps compare the electoral picture in Wales now and the notional results from the 2019 general election.

Just five years ago, the map of Wales looked distinctly blue as the Conservatives won 14 seats.

But no Conservative MPs have been elected in Wales for the first time since the 2001 general election.

The party's vote share was nearly cut in half.

Labour have regained their red wall in the north east, as well as other gains in south-east, south-west and mid Wales.

The emergence of Reform, which took 16.9% of the vote share in Wales, meant even Labour saw its vote share drop to 37%, even though the party made gains in terms of seats.

Plaid Cymru's vote share rose from 10% to 14.8%, claiming two more seats.

The Liberal Democrats are also represented on the map once again.

Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies says he is "bloody angry" following the party's "brutal" wipeout in Wales, saying colleagues had worked "tirelessly over many years".

“We have had a very, very bitter blow to us at the general election,” he says.

He insists voters had "warmed" to the work the Conservatives were doing in Senedd and blamed his party’s defeat in the general election on the "national messaging and national picture".

"At the end of the day the electorate are the bosses in any of this and if they send the message you have to listen."

Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens says the new Labour UK government will "work in partnership with the Welsh government" after securing a massive majority in Westminster.

"Having two Labour governments, one at each end of the M4, working in an atmosphere of trust and respect and collaboration rather than constant frictions means that we will deliver better outcomes for Wales," she tells BBC Radio Wales Breakfast.

When asked how she feels about becoming the new Welsh Secretary, the Cardiff East MP says "we shouldn't assume anything until Keir Starmer becomes prime minister today and starts to make his appointments".

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Morning all - it's been a busy night politically here in Wales.

So here's a quick briefing of the main headlines:

• Conservatives wiped out in Wales - going from 14 MPs in 2019 to none
• Labour resurgent as they win nine seats, including the old red wall in the north, but their vote share slips
• Plaid Cymru return four MPs, with two gains
• From no MPs last time, the Liberal Democrats now have one
• Reform come second in 13 of Wales' 32 seats
• Overall Labour wins a landslide UK general election

Kanishka Narayan, Labour's new MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, says there has been a "deep sense" that "politics needed to change" on doorsteps across Wales.

He tells BBC Radio Wales Breakfast there was a "deep cost of living crisis" in the community, with business and the high street generally "reeling from a sense of chaos that we have had over the last couple of years".

"We've got to turn all of that around," says Mr Narayan, who has become Wales' first-ever ethnic minority MP.

He won the Vale of Glamorgan seat with a 4,216 majority from former Conservative Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns.

He had represented the area since 2010.

Gareth Lewis
BBC Wales political editor

What a story in Wales given what happened five years ago.

Labour has won big and the Conservatives have been wiped out.

But beneath that are so many subplots.

Labour has achieved it despite a significant drop in their share of the vote, and the lowest raw number of votes since the 1930s.

It's one of the oddities of the first past the post system that you can win by trying to concentrate votes exactly where you need them.

That relative lack of enthusiasm from voters is already causing some concern, jubilant mood notwithstanding.

One of the Labour campaign mantras has been that Wales will benefit from two Labour governments working together.

Voters will want to see that in action. Quickly.

Former First Minister Carwyn Jones told us in the small hours that his party needed to hit the ground running.

The drop in share means they'll need to "look under the bonnet", according to another former FM, Mark Drakeford.

Seats at the 2026 Senedd election will be decided on share - under proportional representation - and Labour's polling for that election isn't looking great.

It's an open question whether that is down to the unpopularity of some Welsh Labour government policies such as 20mph or the difficulties of the current FM, Vaughan Gething.

Other parties are waiting to pounce.

Plaid Cymru had a dream night; and the Lib Dems took their target seat too.

Reform have emerged as a real contender, coming second in 13 of the 32 seats and pushing Labour incredibly close in Llanelli.

The Conservatives had a shocker; Reform ate into their vote here as across the UK, although they almost held on in Ynys Môn and Brecon Radnor and Cwm Tawe.

They are now looking to rebuild, although there are already clear suggestions that there will be a very Welsh theme to how that's done here as opposed to what happens in Westminster.

The dynamics in Wales have always been different because we have not one but two governments - both now Labour.

Once their celebrations die down we'll see how that story will play out, and how its outcome will affect you.

Despite the big win, with a low share and turnout in general low, voters look like they still need some convincing.

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This was the moment Welsh Secretary David TC Davies congratulated Labour's Catherine Fookes after she ousted him in Monmouthshire, the final seat in Wales to be declared.

She paid tribute to him, saying he had served 25 years' service to Monmouthshire, first in the Senedd and then in Westminster.

"I want to give you my personal assurance that the constituency is in safe hands," she said.

Mr Davies said, while he was personally disappointed, the "reality is that we live in a democracy and we absoultely accept the results that have come out across the country".

"We must all be proud to live in a democracy and a country where we are happy to follow the will of the people," he added.

The Conservatives have been wiped out across Wales.

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Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock says people will feel the results of a new Labour government in "a year or so" after winning a landslide in the UK general election.

"I do realise what a gigantic set of demands face this new Labour government," says Lord Kinnock.

"We've got crises in every single public service."

The former Islwyn MP says he's "absolutely certain" a Labour UK government "will give to public and private investment as a means of stimulating growth and securing improvement in every aspect of life".

But Lord Kinnock says it "won't be fast, can't be quick", adding: "A year or so in people will start to see it."

Good morning.

If you're just joining us, here are your headlines:

• The Conservatives have lost all their seats in Wales, including Welsh Secretary David TC Davies and three of his predecessors
• Labour gain nine seats, but their vote share slips
• Plaid Cymru return four MPs, with two of them gains
• The Liberal Democrats win a single seat
• Reform come second in 13 seats

Mark Palmer
BBC Wales

The Welsh Liberal Democrats will be happy with their performance after they had an MP elected at a General Election for the first time since 2015.

David Chadwick won the Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe seat for them from the Conservatives with a 20% swing.

The Conservative candidate, Fay Jones, was a junior minister in Rishi Sunak’s government.

They’ve had a bit of in and out relationship with the mid-Wales area of Brecon and Radnorshire over the past four decades in a battle with the Conservatives.

Welsh Party leader Jane Dodds briefly held the seat after a by-election in 2019 but she says this victory shows that her party is “back on the ascendency in Wales”.

The addition of the Cwm Tawe – Swansea Valley – area to the constituency makes it one of the largest in the UK.

David Chadwick will now be representing that large area as part of a much larger group of Liberal Democrats at Westminster.

David Deans
BBC Wales politics reporter

Labour might have held the seat, but the result in Llanelli is likely to worry them.

Nia Griffith, a senior figure in her party, won with just a majority of 1,509 over Nigel Farage's party.

In all, the relatively new party came second in 13 seats. In vote share, it outperformed Plaid Cymru.

Labour has definitely been helped by the split in the vote elsewhere - in more than a few places the party would have been beaten if the right had been consolidated.

That might help Labour in a first past the post election, but in two years time the Senedd will be elected on a whole new system, which will be much more based on the shares of the votes parties get.

It failed to win any MPs in Wales this time, but 2026 could be a different story for Reform.

Steve Duffy
BBC Wales

Wales saw the biggest fall in turnout in Britain - compared with Scotland and all English regions.

Only Yorkshire and Humber (55.7%) had a lower turnout.

The average turnout in Wales was 56.2% - which was more than 10% down on the last general election in December 2019.

All Welsh constituencies saw a fall on the last election.

The highest turnouts were in Monmouthshire and Cardiff North, with more than two thirds of voters turning out.

The lowest were in the heads of the valleys, in Blaenau Gwent and Rhymney - 42.7% - which also saw the biggest percentage fall on last time.

Next lowest was in Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare (47.3%).

Labour, with the help of Plaid Cymru, saw the Tories fall to zero seats on Friday.

But it saw its vote share fall to 37%, from 40.9% the year before.

Before all the results were confirmed, Former First Minister Mark Drakeford told BBC Wales earlier on Friday morning that Labour would need to "get under the bonnet to look at this election result".

He said there would need to be a "proper investigation" into Labour's performance.

Mr Drakeford said it had been “a strange election” where people had gone out to “vote against something".

"There was an absolute determination to get rid of the Conservative government", he said.

"I don’t think that did translate into a huge enthusiasm for any other party”.

If you're just waking up and catching up on the fallout from the general election, here are the five biggest moments from Wales:

1. It's been a disastrous night for the Conservatives in Wales who have lost every single one of their 14 seats
2. In a jubilant night for Labour, the party won back a string of Welsh seats from the Conservatives but its share of the vote in Wales dropped compared to 2019
3. Plaid Cymru has doubled its number of MPs from two to four
4. Nigel Farage's Reform UK party secured 16.9% of the overall vote share in Wales, becoming the second-largest party in 13 out of the 32 counts, and secured 1,504 fewer votes than the victorious Labour party in Llanelli
5. Liberal Democrats are back, gaining Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe from the Conservatives

Read more here

Breaking away from Wales briefly, Liz Truss has lost her seat of South West Norfolk.

She spent only a matter of weeks in Downing Street in 2022 after a mini-budget went wrong.

You can follow reaction from across the UK here.

Mark Palmer
BBC Wales

It has been a very good night for Plaid Cymru.

Their lowest expectation was for Ben Lake to hold Ceredigion Preseli and for their parliamentary leader Liz Saville Roberts to keep Dwyfor Meirionnydd.

Ben Lake has just romped home with a majority of nearly 15,000, Liz Saville Roberts had a healthy win and they’ve taken their two key target seats of Caerfyrddin and Ynys Môn.

In Caerfyrddin, Ann Davies had a strong majority of more than 4,000 votes over Labour. In Ynys Môn, it was close, with Llinos Medi winning with a 637 majority over the Conservatives – but it was always going to be tight race on the island.

The party has always said that their focus is on the Welsh Parliament – the Senedd - elections which take place in 2026. Party leader Rhun ap Iorwerth says tonight’s “dramatic gains” gives him “confidence” for that poll – with his party “the clear alternative to Labour in Wales”.