After the electoral triumph, Boris Johnson arrived at Buckingham Palace to meet Queen Elizabeth who will entrust him with the job. The British elections gave Johnson and the Tories a large majority in Westminster, the keys to Downing Street for the next 5 years and the pass for a Brexit which , 3 and a half years after the 2016 referendum, becomes irreversible . The pound flies in the currency markets in exchange for the dollar and the euro.
"I congratulate Boris Johnson and I expect the British Parliament to ratify the " negotiated Brexit agreement as soon as possible, "said EU Prime Minister Charles Michel.
The EU "is ready to discuss the operational aspects" of future relations, he added, explaining that leaders will have a discussion on Brexit today.
The conservative party has collected over 360 seats out of 650 , while the Jeremy Corbyn Labor is credited with about 200. " An irrefutable decision by the British ", comments Johnson who adds: " With this mandate we will carry out the Brexit ".
Who voted, who volunteered, who stood as candidates. We live in the greatest democracy in the world. pic.twitter.com/1MuEMXqWHq
- Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) December 12, 2019A result that has not been seen since the days of Margaret Thatcher and instead marks the worst defeat for decades for Labor.
And it is war within the party, but Jeremy Corbyn postpones his resignation. He will not lead the party "into another election", but for now it remains in Parliament and "will lead Labor in a phase of reflection".
The verdict is very clear. The message from BoJo, summarized in the promise-and-hit 'Get Brexit done' , has passed. And the Tory control on the Chamber denies any credible room for maneuver on the part of the parties that had committed themselves to convene a second referendum on Europe to offer the islanders a chance to reconsider.
Shock also for the Liberal Democrats : the 39-year-old neo-leader of the most radically anti-Brexit party of the lot, Jo Swinson, who had even tried to present himself as a direct rival to Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, not only failed to advance his training, but was also rejected on a personal level in the college of Dumbartonshire East : undermined by 149 votes by Amy Callaghan, Scottish independentist of the SNP. However, Swinson did not announce his resignation as a leader.
Nigel Farage does not consider the negative result of his Brexit Party in the British political elections to be a defeat . The party remained at stake, with zero seats according to the polls , in fact reabsorbed by the conservative party of Boris Johnson after the triumph in the (proportional) European elections in May. But according to Farage, interviewed hotly by the BBC, he nonetheless helped to promote Tory's success and to avoid the specter of a parliament without a majority (hung Parliament): either by not presenting candidates in over 300 colleges already controlled by conservatives, or by removing votes from Labor by Jeremy Corbyn in different constituencies of the so-called 'red wall' of central-northern England and Wales, traditionally left-wing, but mostly pro Brexit and contrary to a second referendum.
The British Labor Party holds in London where it has won 49 out of 73 seats . Both Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn won in their constituencies. The Tories lost Putney but gained Kensington with a total of 21 seats. Outside instead Chuka Umunna , former Labor star rising in these elections to the Lib Dems.
