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  • This one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate.

  • This is obviously a very disappointing night for the Labour party.

  • Tonight is terrible. It's horrendous. It's heartbreaking.

  • Jo Swinson has lost her seat in Dunbartonshire East to the Scottish National Party.

  • The most disastrous result for the Labour party.

  • The worst result since 1935.

  • [cheering and applause]

  • The votes are counted after this election of December 2019, the Conservatives

  • on 368 seats and Labour way down on 191.

  • A majority. [audience boos]

  • Well, that's what the exit poll is saying.

  • Boris Johnson has gambled and won.

  • The exit poll which is predicting a large Conservative majority.

  • If this exit poll is anywhere near right, this result is a catastrophe for you,

  • Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party.

  • If it is anywhere near this – Just anywhere

  • Anywhere near, you're right, this will be extremely disappointing for the for the party.

  • But certainly this exit poll is a devastating blow.

  • Ian Levy, the Conservative party candidate, 17, 000

  • [cheering and applause]

  • I would like to thank Boris.

  • What we seem to be seeing tonight in Blythe and from the exit poll is that families,

  • people who have been lifelong Labour voters in Labour areas are not voting for your party.

  • Russia's Berlin Wall came down in 2019.

  • Labour's red wall came down.

  • Labour's red wall is analogous to the Berlin Wall

  • of a totalitarian state?

  • Well, that was a very left wing state.

  • Is this result making you ... I mean are you slightly gone ...?

  • No, not at all. The Labour party present lucidity? No.

  • In this election year, I did notice that Ian Duncan Smith is to be elected

  • as a member of parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green.

  • The Lib Dem vote, though. Look at that.

  • Just about splitting it enough to let Iain Duncan Smith in.

  • As the member for the East Dunbartonshire.

  • So we'll be celebrating the wave of nationalism that is sweeping on both sides of the border.

  • And I do congratulate all those who are newly elected.

  • Commiserations to Jo Swinson.

  • To lose her seat tonight, when has led her party through this campaign

  • will be a bitter blow for her.

  • Thank you very much.

  • All good things must come to an end.

  • But I do want to say that I'm over the moon by the results we're seeing nationally.

  • Corbyn was a disaster on the doorstep.

  • Everyone knew that he couldn't lead the working class out of a paper bag.

  • I want him out of the party. I want Momentum gone.

  • Go back to your student politics.

  • And I will not lead the party in any future general election campaign.

  • It is six minutes past 5:00 in the morning.

  • And we are now in a position to say that this election of 2019 formally

  • has been won by the Conservatives.

  • This election means that getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible,

  • unarguable decision of the British people.

This one nation Conservative government has been given a powerful new mandate.

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