UK Election Result 2019 Boris Johnson Win

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Tories win the Election

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won the UK general election in resounding fashion.

Johnson led Conservative party has crushed the opposition in the biggest general election victory for the Party since 1987.
Tories will start their fourth consecutive term in government
They have managed to demolish the Labour party’s so-called red wall – of traditional heartlands in Wales, the Midlands and the north.

19 October – Current Brexit deal was rejected by parliament .
29 October – House of Commons passed the Early Parliamentary General Election Bill 2019–20, with 438-20 majority – which circumvented the FTPA so as to hold a December election .
Early elections despite theFixed-term Parliaments Act 2011,which introduced fixed-term parliaments to the United Kingdom.

Purdah is the pre-election period in the United Kingdom, the
The time between the announcement of an election and the formation of the new elected government.
It affects civil servants, who must be politically impartial, preventing central and local government from making announcements about any new or controversial government initiatives.

Neither the Conservative or Labour parties had enough votes to form a majority government after the 2017 election.
The Conservatives were the bigger of the two parties and formed a partnership with the Democratic Unionist Party DUP in order to win votes in the Commons.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the result represented a “new dawn” for the UK and promised to work “flat out” to deliver Brexit by a January 31 deadline.
“We will get Brexit done on time by 31 January – no ifs, no buts, not maybe.’’
Johnson has the mandate to ratify his Brexit deal by the end of January, he will stick to his campaign pledge to finish any trade negotiation with the European Union by the end of 2020
Scotland Referendum 2.0
Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Nicola Sturgeon has said her party’s strong performance in the election reinforced the case for holding a fresh referendum on Scottish independence.
Her party picked up 48 out of Scotland’s 59 seats.
The first Scottish independence referendum – hailed as a “once in a lifetime” vote – failed in 2014, when 55 percent of Scots voted in favour of remaining in the UK.
However, Scotland overwhelmingly opposed Brexit, reigniting the debate.

Women now represent just over a third (34%) of all MPs, taking 221 seats out of 650 in the UK’s lower house.
208 in the 2017 election.
Conservative candidates won 86 seats, the most the party has ever had, and more than 50% of Labour MPs are now female.