As many English go to the polls to vote in their party it seems like Boris Johnson’s party is set to win the majority vote.
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As at 2:31:57 am (Local UK/Nigerian time): See update from Bloomberg:
It appears that the approach MPs needed to adopt to win was to accept the referendum result in their constituencies. All the anecdotal evidence is that many voters in Leave-voting Labour constituencies were furious that their wishes had not been enacted.
Bloomberg reports that the EU is happy that there looks like there will be a government in the U.K. with a strong majority, but Europe’s leaders weren’t in the mood to focus too much on Brexit on Thursday night as they gathered for a summit in Brussels. As the poll was revealed at 11 p.m (12/12/19) Brussels time, the 27 leaders paused their meeting and checked their phones in silence, one official close to a prime minister said, “And then they carried on talking about climate.”
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