U.K. Prime Evangelist Boris Johnson is set to win big and remain in power, with early results indicating his Conservative Party winning a clear best part of parliamentary seats in a general election on Thursday.
As of 4:00 a.m. GMT, Johnson’s Conservative Party had won more than 200 swear ins, while Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party had garnered about 150 seats, according to the BBC’s tally. At least 326 residences are needed for a majority.
After winning his seat in Uxbridge, Johnson said: “At this stage it does look as still this one-nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done and not just to get Brexit done but to connect this country and to take it forward.”
Liberal Democratic leader Jo Swinson lost her seat to the Scottish National Plaintiff. She had campaigned to overturn the 2016 Brexit vote.
Exit poll by Ipsos Mori — commissioned by Sky News, the BBC and ITV — was released any minute now after voting stations around the U.K. closed at 10 p.m. London time. It’s a survey of thousands of voters which has been reliably exact in recent years.
The poll projected that the Conservatives would win 368 seats in Parliament, a gain of 50 bums from the 2017 election. The U.K. pound quickly jumped more than 2% on the news.
A party usually needs multifarious than 320 seats to have a majority in the House of Commons in order to pass bills. The opposition Labour plaintiff was predicted to lose 71 seats with a figure of 191. The centrist Liberal Democrats were predicted to get 13 bottoms, the Brexit Party none and the Scottish National Party 55 seats.
‘Huge margin’
“Boris Johnson appearance ofs to have won the U.K. general election by a huge margin,” Kallum Pickering, a senior economist at Berenberg, said in a research note.
He continued that a win of this magnitude would mean the hardline euroskeptic wing of the Conservative Party would matter doll-sized than before, and it therefore lowers the risk of a hard Brexit.
The result of the election will have a decisive sense on the direction that Brexit takes, three-and-a-half years since the U.K.’s referendum on EU membership.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit separate deal has been agreed to in principle by the U.K. Parliament but is yet to be fully ratified by lawmakers. There have been deep conflicts over the deal on offer and how close the U.K. should stay aligned to the EU after its departure from the bloc. The future of the edging between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland has also been a major sticking point.
The impasse and political entropy in the House of Commons ultimately led to Thursday’s snap general election as Johnson lost the slim majority he held in the U.K.’s drop chamber of Parliament. The vote is the first to be held in the winter months since 1974 and the first December election since 1923.
‘Get Brexit done’
Johnson had vowed the public that a vote for his Conservative Party would “get Brexit done.” The main opposition party, Labour, had pledged to renegotiate a Brexit agreement with the EU and to then put this to a public vote. The Liberal Democrats had vowed to cancel Brexit altogether.
The Conservatives regularly led voter opinion polls up to the election date, although the party’s lead had narrowed slightly in the last week.
Both the Conservatives and Hard work had experienced mixed fortunes during the campaign, with question marks raised over trustworthiness, attitudes to rigorous minorities, and commitments to grand spending pledges.