Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party Wins In A Landslide Parliamentary Election

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party secured a landslide victory in the British general election.

Naija News Understands that the result is a vindication of Johnson’s strategy to campaign on a single promise to “get Brexit done.”

However, It was a painful  defeat for the opposition Labour Party, whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said he would step down after a “process of reflection.” And the leader of the pro-Remain Liberal Democrat party, Jo Swinson, lost her seat, as the Scottish National Party swept the board in Scotland.

By early Friday morning, the Conservatives had secured 363 of the 650 seats in the House of Parliament, well ahead of Labour’s 203 seats.

The Liberal Democrats have 11 seats, while the Scottish National Party posted big gains in Scotland, with 48 seats. That would give Johnson a comfortable majority in the House of Commons and paves the way for Brexit to take place at the end of January.

“We did it,” Johnson said at a victory rally on Friday morning. “We broke the deadlock, we smashed the roadblock,” he told a cheering room. “A new dawn rises on a new day.”

“You may only have lent us your vote, you may not consider yourself a natural Tory, your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper as you put your cross in the Conservative box… If that is the case I am humbled,” Johnson said.

The anti-Brexit Liberal Democrats announced they would replace Jo Swinson as leader after she lost her seat in western Scotland to the Scottish National Party (SNP).

The pound had risen late Thursday on hopes that Johnson will now deliver his promise to “Get Brexit Done” after years of uncertainty over Britain’s future.