{"id":197691,"date":"2019-12-13T14:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/boris-johnson-secures-biggest-conservative-party-election-win-since-1987.html"},"modified":"2019-12-13T14:15:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T14:15:42","slug":"boris-johnson-secures-biggest-conservative-party-election-win-since-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/boris-johnson-secures-biggest-conservative-party-election-win-since-1987.html","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson secures biggest Conservative Party election win since 1987"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will retain power with a thumping majority after his Conservative Party secured its best election result since 1987.<\/p>\n<p>With just one vote left to be counted, the Conservatives had secured 364 parliamentary seats, a majority of 78 in the House of Commons. The result, which proved even more decisive than pollsters had forecast, follows a bitterly-fought and divisive election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>At victory celebrations in central London, Johnson told an audience that the country will now leave the EU on January 31.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will get Brexit done on time by the 31st of January, no ifs, no buts, no maybes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may only have lent us your vote, you may not think of yourself as a natural (Conservative) &#8230; You may hope to return to Labour next time round, and if that is the case, I am humbled that you have put your trust in me,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">FTSE 100<\/a> rose by nearly 1% early on Friday morning, while <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">sterling<\/a> jumped 2% against the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">U.S. dollar<\/a> after an early exit poll projected the decisive victory for the Conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>The top-performing stocks on the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Euro Stoxx 600<\/a> benchmark were overwhelmingly dominated by London-listed firms. Virgin Money UK, Taylor Wimpey and Persimmon were the best performers, all trading more than 12% higher. The domestic focused FTSE 250 rallied 5% in early deals to reach a new record high.<\/p>\n<p>Yields on the U.K. benchmark 10-year bonds rose 7 basis points in early trade and reached their highest level since early June at 0.895%.<\/p><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/12\/13\/boris-johnsons-conservative-party-wins-uk-election-with-commanding-majority-sky-news-projects.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson will retain power with a thumping majority after his Conservative Party secured its best election result since 1987. With just one vote left to be counted, the Conservatives had secured 364 parliamentary seats, a majority of 78 in the House of Commons. The result, which proved even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-197691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}