Prime minister delivers a speech after a visit at Buckingham Palace and the publication of the final election result.
Britain’s prime minister, Boris Johnson, urged in a speech in front of Downing Street on Friday afternoon the british “to allow a healing process” begin after a landslide victory for his conservative party.
He kept the speech short, after having visited Buckingham Palace, where queen Elizabeth formally surrendered to him the task of forming a new government.
– On Monday, we will in Westminster to form a new parliament, and I am proud to say that some members of our new government – a people’s government – come from constituencies where there is not elected a conservative in 100 years, he said, and promised not to fail the trust the voters have shown in him and his party.
Johnson spoke almost immediately after the final results had been published. Johnson’s conservative party has 365 seats in the new parliament, while the labour party the Labour party has 203 seats.
The Scottish Nationalparti got 48 seats, and the liberal democratic party secured 11 seats. Other parties took the last 23 seats divided between, among others, The Democratic Unionistparti, Plaid Cymru and The Greens. Parliament has a total of 650 seats.
The largest conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher’s election victory in 1987, implies that the exchange rate is set against a british farewell to the EU.
the British entry for the plan out of the EU 31. January 2020, after which additional amounts outstanding on trade must be negotiated before the end of 2020.
Why have Johnson and co. still a great piece of work ahead of us.
As a result of the bad choices have a Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced his departure, although he has been re-elected with a large majority in his constituency of Islington North. Corbyn remains in a period of party leader.
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