The British pound surged, hitting its highest levels against the euro since shortly after the 2016 Brexit referendum as Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party looked on course for a big parliamentary majority. Follow our GE2019 live blog:
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said Britain would leave the European Union if Boris Johnson’s Conservatives win the majority forecast in the exit poll, but it may not be the hard Brexit he had spent his political career campaigning for.
If the exit poll is accurate and Boris Johnson’s bet on a snap election has paid off, he will move swiftly to ratify the Brexit deal he struck with the European Union so that the United Kingdom can leave on January 31 - 10 months later than initially planned.I hope you enjoy a celebration tonight. With any luck, tomorrow we’ll be getting to work
European diplomats on Thursday welcomed the clarity an apparently decisive election victory for the Conservative party gave to Britain’s stalled withdrawal from the EU, but said it would be challenging to agree a trade deal the end of 2020.
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