The Conservative Party secured its biggest victory since 1987 with a thumping majority of 365 seats in the general elections concluded on the 12th December 2019. In a statement after the victory from 10, Downing Street PM Boris Johnson said, ” We promise to govern as a one nation party and use the majority to ‘unite and level up’ the country.”
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Boris Johnson will meet the Queen shortly to seek permission to form the new full majority government.
Labor Party led by Jeremy Corbyn won 203 seats with 32.2% vote share which is termed as the worst defeats for the party.
Jeremy Corbyn declared that he will no more lead the Labour party in the next elections
Out of the total 650 seats, Scottish National Party and Liberal Democrats managed to secure 48 and 11 seats with 3.9% and 11.6% vote share respectively. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) secured 8 seats with 0.8% vote share.
Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson and the DUP’s leader Nigel Dodds have lost their seats.
Following the election results, the Muslim Council of Britain‘s Secretary General Harun Khan issued a statement saying there is ‘a palpable sense of fear amongst Muslim communities after the victory of the Conservatives’.
Snap elections were called as Johnson had failed to pass through an EU withdrawal agreement by the end of October 2019.
PM Boris Johnson reiterated that ‘Brexit’ and ‘NHS’ are the top priorities for the newly elected government.
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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician, writer, and former journalist who is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. He also served as mayor of London from 2008 to 2016 and foreign secretary from 2016 to 2018. He began his career in journalism at The Times. He was elected MP for Henley in 2001 and served as a Junior Shadow Minister under Conservative leaders Michael Howard and David Cameron. In 2016, he became a prominent figure in the successful Vote Leave campaign for Brexit. He then served as Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs under Theresa May. More Info
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