BREAKING: British PM Boris Johnson has won a convincing election victory, easily passing the threshold to form a stable government and set the course for the country's exit from the European Union.
as it represented the last realistic opportunity to block Brexit.
But it's been a disastrous election for the socialist Labour Party, which saw its vote share drop eight percent overall and the loss of key seats across the country in its worst general election performance in three decades. Labour leaderbefore the next election, without setting a date, after a period of"reflection."
It wasn't much better for the centrist Liberal Democrat Party — who promised to cancel Brexit if elected — which saw its leader Jo Swinson lose her seat in East Dunbartonshire in Scotland and the party fail to make many gains elsewhere.
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