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Landslide victory for Boris Johnson after 10,000 vote majority

The Mayor of London has returned to the House of Commons after seven years following a 10,000 vote majority in last night’s election.

Boris Johnson has succeeded in winning the seat for Uxbridge and South Ruislip in west London.

For the next year he will be combining his duties in the Commons along with his role as Mayor of London, having vowed to continue with the job until his term ends next year.

For seven years, Johnson was MP for Henley until he left in 2008 to take up is high profile role in the city.

Following his victory with a 10,000 majority he said: “It’s been a long and exciting evening and obviously I’m very excited by some of the results that are coming through.

“Overall I think it’s been an amazing night for the Conservatives.”

He told the BBC: “Sad about others, but overall it’s been an amazing night for the Conservatives when you consider where we were and what the polls were saying only a few hours ago.

“It’s a remarkable turnaround.”

With the Conservatives on course to win a narrow victory, Mr Johnson said: “The people of Britain, after a long and exhausting campaign, have finally spoken. I don’t think we need any fancy constitutional expert to tell us what they were trying to say.

“I think they have decisively rejected any attempt to take this country back to the 1970s, decisively rejected old-fashioned and outdated politics of division, and it is clear to me the people of this country want us to go forward with sensible, moderate policies that this Conservative Party has produced over the last five years and that have led to a sustained economic recovery.

“I think the people of this country want to go forward with that long-term economic plan for the benefit of everybody in this constituency and across the entire country.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .