UK ELECTION: Labour Party vote crumbles as PM Johnson lands ‘historic’ victory

Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson has secured a historic victory after he won an overall majority in the United Kingdom’s snap general election.

As of 05:30am (05:30 GMT) on Friday, Official results from Thursday’s snap poll showed the Conservatives had won 341 of the 650 seats up for grabs in the House of Commons, with results in 33 seats still to be declared.

According to reports, the Conservatives performance paves the way for Johnson to now take the UK out of the EU by the end of next month, as he has repeatedly pledged to do.

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Speaking in the early hours of Friday morning, Johnson said voters appeared to have given his government a “powerful new mandate to get Brexit done”.

“I think this will turn out to be a historic election that gives us now, in this new government, the chance to respect the democratic will of the British people, to change this country for the better and to unleash the potential of the entire people of this country,” he said at the vote count in his London constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip.

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