Boris Johnson Claims Brexit Mandate as Conservatives Win Election

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month.

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Johnson on Twitter, and said that “Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a massive new trade deal after Brexit.” The Scottish National Party won almost 50 of Scotland’s 59 seats, up from 35 in 2017, a result that will embolden its demands for a new referendum on Scottish independence.

Speaking at the election count in his Uxbridge constituency in suburban London, Johnson said the “historic” election “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.”

But a decisive Conservative victory would also provide some relief to the EU, which has grown tired of Britain’s Brexit indecision. Opinion polls had given the Conservatives a steady lead, but the result was considered hard to predict, because the issue of Brexit cuts across traditional party loyalties.

Ugh, good luck, people of the UK

This is the real TIME person of the year. Who cares about the climate scam.

RIP I’m sorry for your loss

Congratulations sir

Well my friends in the UK, you are now doomed and you have no one to blame but yourselves! Enjoy

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