The Conservative party won majority of seats in the just concluded UK elections as Boris Johnson heads back Number 10 Downing Street as the Prime Minister.
The Conservatives’ victory in the 650th and final contest of the election – the seat of St Ives, in Cornwall – took their total number of MPs up to 365 MPs. Labour finished on 203, the SNP 48, Liberal Democrats 11 and the DUP eight.
The PM, who has met the Queen to ask to form a new government, has a majority of 80 in the House of Commons, which is the largest win for the the since 1987.
The labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn said he was “very sad” about the result, adding that he had received “more personal abuse” from the media during the campaign than any previous prime ministerial candidate.
Labour was swept aside by the Conservatives in its traditional heartlands in the Midlands and north-eastern England, and lost six seats in Wales.
Johnson, earlier in his victory speech, thanked those who for the first time voted for the Conservatives promised to fulfill the “sacred trust” placed in him.
