Throughout the UK election campaign, Boris Johnson asked British voters to give him a strong parliamentary majority in order to “get Brexit done”. His majority will be stronger than the British prime minister may have even imagined.

Johnson passed the winning post of 326 MPs shortly after 5am UK time; if projections are borne out, he will end up with a sizeable majority in the new House of Commons. With the correlated electoral disaster of the opposition Labour Party, Johnson has all the mandate he sought, and beyond, to take the UK out of the EU.