Adedapo Adesanya
By Adedapo Adesanya
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr Boris Johnson, will return to the office after the Conservative Party (Tories) won majority seats in parliament at the winter election held on Thursday.
As at the time of this report, the party has won 364 seats, representing 43.6 percent, a majority out of 650 slots available at the parliament.
The party needed 326 seats to win, but currently has 364. It was followed closely by its bitter rival, the Labour Party, with 203 seats, representing 32.2 percent.
Other parties include: the Scottish National Party with 48 seats (3.9 percent); the Liberal Democrats has 11 seats (11.5 percent); Plaid Cymru with four seats, the Greens with one, and the Brexit Party with none.
This means the Conservatives will have their biggest majority at parliament since Margaret Thatcher’s 1987 election victory, while Labour, which lost seats across the North, Midlands and Wales in places which backed Brexit in 2016, is facing its worst defeat since 1935.
For Labour leader, Mr Jeremy Corbyn, who lost, he faces calls for his resignation as the results rolled in. He has instead called the result “very disappointing” for his party and said he would not lead Labour into another election, with intentions of his resignation not clarified.
With the victory of Mr Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party, it means a Brexit deal is inevitable – this will involve moving to negotiate a free-trade agreement with the European Union in 2020.
