UK general election 2019: exit poll predicts 86-seat Conservative landslide majority – live news
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According to the BBC’s Andrew Marr, if Boris Johnson does win a majority as large as the exit poll predicts – and the Labour to Tory swing in the first seat to declare (see 11.33pm) suggests that he will – then he will fast-track the withdrawal agreement legislation through parliament, with MPs perhaps sitting on the Saturday before Christmas, and the House of Lords sitting between Christmas and New Year.
Marr also says the Queen’s speech and the budget might come after Brexit happens on 31 January.
On ITV News, George Osborne has said:
We never thought we’d get Blyth Valley. We had hopes in a place called Tynemouth, which we might come to later. There’s a Conservative candidate in Hexham who I heard a couple of days ago saying ‘we are going to win Blyth valley’ and I thought he was always a bit optimistic, this guy. But he was right and that is a pretty spectacular win.