With all votes counted, the final results are: Israel has celebrated Labour‘s election defeat as a “milestone in the fight against hatred” after its leadership was accused of inaction over allegations of anti–Semitism in its ranks. We live in the greatest democracy in the world. Voters last night were merciless in expelling Tory rebels and Labour carpetbaggers including Dominic Grieve, David Gauke, Chukku Umunna and Anna Soubry. Carrie Symonds is crowned First Lady: Boris's girlfriend, 31, takes centre stage as she enters 10 Downing St with PM after his stonking victory…. Bolsover is a former mining town in Derbyshire. Labour makes MORE gains in latest poll but the Tories are still on course to win a majority with just HOURS to go until general election voting begins, Ten early results to watch on election night: Knife-edge seats that will announce before 3am and could point towards a big majority for Boris Johnson ... or a Brexit-stalling hung parliament, Labour and the Tories are neck and neck in DOZENS of Leave-voting seats where the Brexit Party has surged, poll reveals as Nigel Farage prays for SNOW to boost his chances, Ann Widdecombe refuses to apologise for using the world 'golliwog' in a Brexit Party WhatsApp message, Boris Johnson insists he is NOT too posh to win over traditional Labour Leave voters and tears into Jeremy Corbyn for wanting to 'destroy capitalism' and block Brexit in frantic final election push, Very cool, Prime Minister! Al Jazeera’s David Child examined why this might be the case – read Labour’s “red wall” creaks as loyal voters consider other parties.

Social media users savaged the left-winger after she slammed the Tory victory this morning after she said the Tories won the election because racism runs deep in the UK. Jo Swinson’s lazy comparison of the progressive nationalism of @theSNP with Boris Johnson’s little Englanderism is the sort of sloppy irrational thinking that’s lost her her seat & no doubt the leadership of her party, — Joanna Cherry QC (@joannaccherry) December 13, 2019.

“But the British people have decided and we have to accept their choice: With Johnson’s victory Brexit has become inevitable. And return on election night as the database is updated with every result, Government accuses Russian-based elements of ‘amplifying’ leaked documents about post-Brexit trade talks with US. If the exit poll is correct then it cannot be said, after three-and-a-half years of Brexit chaos and calamity in plain sight, that voters could not have known what they were voting for, This will not be the Brexit we need or want, But it will now be the Brexit we deserve https://t.co/dI4oSblOyn, — david allen green (@davidallengreen) December 12, 2019.

Darlington has gone from Labour to the Conservatives, while the Tories have also taken Workington – a constituency which has been a Labour seat for all but three years since its creation in 1918. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he will step down early next year following the worst loss for the main opposition party since 1935. Here’s a result you may have missed. — Leonardo Carella (@leonardocarella) December 13, 2019, jo swinson in november: i am the next prime minister, jo swinson in december: pic.twitter.com/eNHc2Ujy9o. The Derbyshire constituency has been Labour since its inception in the 1950s, but the Conservatives last night trounced Mr Skinner to return a 5,299 majority. Jeremy Corbyn pays tribute to local party activists and says he will not lead the Labour Party into another election, but will remain leader during “a period of reflection”. 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Really, really gutted about Jo Swinson. The official result for that constituency is expected at around 3am. But I don’t think it will bring the country together, I think it will be divided still.”.

All 202 of its remaining MPs confronted the outgoing opposition leader as he addressed them in Parliament tonight as it returned for the first time since their harrowing Thursday night loss. Many have been  Labour for generations and whether they stay in the hands of Jeremy Corbyn or switch allegiance to the Tories could make all the difference to Brexit. The first sign of cracks came at Blyth Valley, outside Newcastle, which fell at 11.30pm, before age-old powerbases Darlington, Wrexham and Wolverhampton all smashed out of the party. The 'youthquake' Labour needed, but never materialised, would have won them 341 more seats than the 203 they took in December, analysis by Election Maps UK has found.