Boris Johnson Secures a Convincing U.K. Election Win

11:45, 13.12.2019

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson won a decisive majority in Thursday’s general election, a stunning victory for the Brexit cheerleader that paves the way for the U.K. Parliament to trigger a long-delayed split with the European Union.

Johnson’s Conservatives secured a majority in Britain’s 650-seat House of Commons, the party’s strongest performance at an election since 1987. Its projected 364 seats would give it 68 more lawmakers than all the other parties combined.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the scale of the victory makes it all but certain that Britain will leave the EU at the end of next month, completing a divorce that was backed by voters in a 2016 referendum but that has been bogged down in the country’s Parliament for more than three years.

President Trump congratulated Johnson on his victory early Friday. “Britain and the United States will now be free to strike a massive new Trade Deal after BREXIT,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “This deal has the potential to be far bigger and more lucrative than any deal that could be made with the EU.”

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