UK delivers historic win for Boris Johnson

REUTERS -  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday (December 13) that his government appeared to have won a powerful new mandate to get Brexit done. An exit poll showed the Conservatives winning a landslide 368 seats, more than enough for a comfortable majority in the 650-seat parliament and the biggest Conservative national election win since Margaret Thatcher's 1987 triumph. "At this stage it does look as though this one-nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate, to get Brexit done and not just to get Brexit done but to unite this country and to take it forward," Johnson said after winning his seat of Uxbridge. "I think this will turn out to be a historic election that 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." "That is what we will now do, and if we are lucky enough to be returned as the exit poll seems to suggest then that work will begin ... today."