Kind of blue: UK comes to terms with Tory election victory
Nation remains divided with Boris Johnson calling for reconciliation, and Nicola Sturgeon demanding a vote on Scottish independence
Britain awoke on Friday morning to an electoral map that had turned an emphatic shade of Tory blue, and to a country as starkly divided as ever – this time into those delighted by a thumping Boris Johnson election victory and those despairing at the prospect of a rightwing Conservative government, a hard exit from the European Union and ever more pressing questions over the sustainability of the UK itself.
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