Source: David Cameron is heading back to Downing Street after a late surge in support for the Conservatives.
The Tories, who inflicted the country with savage cuts, zero hours and the bedroom tax, were set to be the largest party - but could be still short of an overall majority.
And Mr Cameron will head a divided nation after the SNP demolished Labour to sweep the board in Scotland.
The Lib Dems also had a catastrophic time as their seats tumbled to the Tories.
Labour casaulties included Shadow Foreign Secrertary and the party’s election coordinator Douglas Alexander who lost to a 20-year-old SNP student.
The scale of Labour’s defeat was forecast by the shock exit poll predicted the Conservatives to win 316 seats, Labour 239, the SNP 58, the Lib Dems on 10 and UKIP two.
A dismal night for Ed Miliband was sealed when Labour failed to take Nuneaton - the party’s 37th target - from the Conservatives.
A dire result saw the Tories increase their majority in the battleground seat with 3% swing.
