Election results – live: Boris Johnson says NHS will be priority as he reaches out to Remainers following historic win

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General election 2019: Boris Johnson arrives at Downing Street

Boris Johnson has said he will make the NHS an "overwhelming priority" during his renewed tenure in No. 10 following a political “earthquake” which which saw Labour support give way top a comfortable Tory majority.

However he has not extended the same olive branch to voters north of the border - telling Nicola Sturgeon he would not lend any support to a second independence referendum.

Meanwhile Jeremy Corbyn has refused to take responsibility for the worst Labour showing since 1935 - blaming Brexit for the party’s devastating defeat.

Key Points

• Johnson vows to get Brexit done 'no ifs, no buts'
• Labour figures call on Corbyn to quit immediately
• ...but Corbyn says he won't leave until 'early part of next year'
• Swinson loses seat, leading Sturgeon to celebrate wildly
• 'End of Corbynism,' claims David Cameron
• PM promises 'permanent break from talking about Brexit' in Downing Street speech
• ...while adding the 'overwhelming priority of the British people' is a 'focus... on the NHS'.

[12 December 2019 23:58 · Andrew Griffin]

Count Binface arrives at the Uxbridge count

[13 December 2019 00:05 · Andrew Griffin]

Labour hold Newcastle East

Labour's candidate has kept Newcastle upon Tyne East, with a 16,000 majority.

[13 December 2019 00:07 · Andrew Griffin]

Labour hold Sunderland Central

In Sunderland, Labour has won a very tight race. Labour MP Julie Elliott has won a tiny majority of just under 3,000, and holds onto her seat.

Her majority has been considerably shaved by the Conservatives and Brexit parties – the latter of which took most of the votes from Labour. She had a 9,000 majority last time around.

[13 December 2019 00:10 · Andrew Griffin]

Tories could 'build a new Conservative majority across Britain for a generation', says former MP

Former Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames said the Tories winning in former Labour heartlands could "build a new Conservative majority across Britain for a generation".

Sir Nicholas, the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, lost the Tory whip earlier this year for supporting efforts to stop a no-deal Brexit but later had it restored, however, he is not standing in the General Election.

Speaking to BBC News, he said: "I don't think the Prime Minister is solely a Brexit prime minister, I think he is a proper one-nation Tory.

"But it's quite clear he persuaded - in a lot of seats in the North and the Midlands, I think, and elsewhere - that the Labour Party, the Corbyn Labour Party, was not the Labour Party they knew."

He added: "This is a big change, it is a political watershed and it will be a different party but it is no bad thing for being that.

"This could build a new Conservative majority across Britain for another generation."

[13 December 2019 00:17 · Andrew Griffin]

Betting markets move towards united Ireland

Here from Jim Moore, on the way the results are being interpreted for the future of Ireland:

Much talk about IndyRef 2 in Scotland given the SNP’s apparent strong showing and the Tory landslide in England. But what about Northern Ireland, given the border that may soon existing between it and the Republic? Paddy Power offers 6-1 of a United Ireland by 2024. An interesting bet at the price.

[13 December 2019 00:21 · Andrew Griffin]

Lib Dem leader Swinson's seat "on a knife-edge"

The joint-leader of East Dunbartonshire council has said "it is on a knife edge" whether Liberal Dem leader Jo Swinson will lose her seat to the SNP.

Andrew Polson, a Conservative councillor, said: "My gut reaction is that she might scrape through, but it's on a knife edge."

Mr Polson revealed that - according to his figures - Jo Swinson is polling 44% in his Bearsden South ward, which he described "strong Tory" area.

"You would really expect her to be polling 50%," he said.

"She's holding up in Bearsden, but the SNP have increased their vote. They're polling 23% there, when you'd be expecting around 15%, so it's on a knife edge."

He said his sense from Conservative supporters in his ward was that they were voting for the Tories rather than voting tactically to keep out the SNP.

"We were definitely getting on the doors in our ward: 'We're sticking with you this time - the last two elections we voted Jo but we're sticking with you this time'," he added.

Mr Polson also suggested there was a significant number of remain-voting constituents who thought the Liberal Democrat's policy of revoking Article 50 was a "threat to democracy".

[13 December 2019 00:22 · Andrew Griffin]

Momentum founder says decision on Corby's future not needed until next year

Founder of Momentum, Jon Lansman, said the decision on whether Labour should replace Jeremy Corbyn as party leader doesn't need to be taken "until the New Year".

Mr Lansman said Mr Corbyn has "achieved a great deal" on issues such as austerity, and that the election was "incredibly polarised because of Brexit".

Speaking on ITV, he said: "I think maybe the manifesto was too long and too detailed, it's a programme actually not for a government, but for 10 years. I think it's a good programme, but maybe we need to have shorter, snappier manifestos."

Mr Lansman continued: "The result is a disastrous result because millions of people in this country who are suffering from the affects of austerity are going to suffer badly."

On whether Mr Corbyn should be replaced, he added: "I think Jeremy has to make those decisions himself. You know Jeremy has always been a reluctant leader, I don't think he'll overstay his welcome.

"But I think he should be able to make decisions. And I don't think we should rush into these things. Christmas is not far away, I don't think decisions really need to be taken about this until the New Year."

[13 December 2019 00:26 · Andrew Griffin]

Labour hold Middlesborough

Middlesborough stays with Labour, with Andy McDonald holding onto the seat he has represented since 2012.

He has a majority of 8,390, and Labour is down 12.2 per cent. An independent candidate took most of the votes.

(That makes it 5-1, though of course that's just a consequences of the north east's speedy counting.)

[13 December 2019 00:29 · Andrew Griffin]

'Workington Man' still undecided

The result is too close to call in Workington, Labour and Tory sources say.

A think tank coined the phrase "Workington Man'' to describe the key target voter who would determine the outcome of the election: a Northern, older, white man.

Labour's shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman is defending a 3,925 majority from 2017. The area voted heavily to leave the EU.

[13 December 2019 00:31 · Andrew Griffin]

Conservatives hold Swindon North

The Conservatives have held onto Swindon North, and Justin Tomlinson is chosen as its MP.

He wins with a majority of 16,000 – double what it was last time around.

Swindon North is notable because it is the home of a Honda factory, which has been at the centre of concerns about Brexit.