UK results: Boris Johnson returns to power as Conservatives win

Boris Johnson, prime minister of the UK, will to return
to office after his party, the Conservatives, won majority seats in
the general election. 

According to the
BBC^[1], with just a handful of
seats left to declare in the election the party, also known as the
Tory, will get a sweeping majority.

Johnson said the victory will give him a mandate to “get Brexit
done” and take the UK out of the EU in January.

Jeremy Corbyn said Labour had a “very disappointing night” and
he would not fight a future election.

The BBC predicts that the Tories will get 364 MPs, Labour 203,
the SNP 48, the Lib Dems 12, Plaid Cymru four, the Greens one, and
the Brexit Party none.

This it said means the Conservatives will have their biggest
majority at Westminster since Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 election
victory.

Labour, which has lost seats across the North, Midlands and
Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst
defeat since 1935.