Boris Johnson And Conservatives Win In Great Britain

Donald Trump, in his telling, could have shot somebody on Fifth Avenue and won. Boris Johnson could mislead the queen. He could break his promise to get Britain out of Europe by Oct. 31. He could lie about Turks invading Britain and the cost of European Union membership. He could make up stories about building 40 new hospitals. He could double down on the phantom $460 million a week that Brexit would deliver to the National Health Service — and still win a landslide Tory electoral victory not seen since Margaret Thatcher’s triumph in 1987.

Although Boris Johnson may have defused a ten-megaton bomb of neo-Marxism in Britain and assured the final passage of Brexit, his Conservative victory is hardly a victory for conservatism. On the far side of the Atlantic, as over here, fiscal responsibility has taken a lethal beating.

Boris Johnson has won a decisive majority, on the back of a big swing from Labour to the Conservatives in Leave-voting Britain.

Yet north of the border the SNP dramatically almost swept the board.

With all results now declared, the prime minister has won a majority of 80 seats - the biggest Tory majority since 1987.

Meanwhile, at 44%, the party's share of the vote is set to be at its highest since 1979, when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party was swept back into government Friday after an historic election night that saw opposition Labour Party strongholds across the country swing dramatically to the Tories -- making Britain's departure from the European Union a near-certainty, and immediately bringing a promise of a new trade deal from President Trump.

Speaking before dawn at Conservative Party headquarters on Friday morning, Boris Johnson celebrated “a huge, great stonking mandate” from the British people, after his party won an overwhelming victory in Thursday’s election. The Conservatives now have three hundred and sixty-four members of Parliament—a majority of almost eighty over the the other parties—and enormous freedom to govern for the next five years. The vote is a turning point.