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'.

[13 December 2019 00:55 · Andrew Griffin]

Workington MP says Corbyn should go

From Colin Drury, on the ground in the key Cumbrian seat:

Knives out for Corbyn here in Workington.

Sue Hayman, the Labour candidate currently facing the fight of her life to hang on to the seat, says it is now time for him to go.

“If these exit polls are to be believed then I think we do need to see a new leader sooner rather than later,” she tells The Independent.

[13 December 2019 00:57 · Andrew Griffin]

DUP candidate says party is not 'totally dismayed' by exit poll results

Democratic Unionist Party East Antrim candidate Sammy Wilson has denied his party has been left dismayed by exit poll indications that the Conservatives will be returned with a sizeable majority.

The Democratic Unionists became kingmakers in the last Parliament when Tory governments under Theresa May and Boris Johnson relied on their ten votes through a confidence and supply deal.

Mr Wilson told the PA news agency that he was not surprised at the exit poll results, claiming Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had had a "toxic effect".

"Obviously we'd have preferred to be in a situation we were in the last Parliament where we did have the influence and where it was fairly marginal, however for the country it probably wasn't a great thing because no decisions could be made," he said.

"I still wouldn't be totally dismayed insofar as a big majority could actually mean that Boris Johnson can go in and be fairly bullish with the EU when it comes to negotiations, and if he does do that then many of the problems the current deal is going to cause Northern Ireland could disappear.

"For example, if he were to go in and say 'I am insisting if you want to deal with me you will not impose any tariffs on goods coming from the United Kingdom into Europe and you will not impose any quotas on those goods'. If that were the case then immediately the need for checks on the Irish Sea to collect taxes and tariffs would disappear because Britain would have tariff free access to the EU."

[13 December 2019 01:00 · Andrew Griffin]

Labour hold South Shields

Labour has kept hold of another contested seat in the north east. Emma Lewell-Buck has held onto the seat for the party with a majority of 9,585.

[13 December 2019 01:03 · Andrew Griffin]

Labour Party chairman's seat very close

Wansbeck, which is the seat of Labour Party chair Ian Lavery, is looking very close. There are rumours of a recount as it goes down to the wire.

[13 December 2019 01:05 · Andrew Griffin]

Tory Party chair says he is at the head of 'the most successful political movement in the history of mankind'

[13 December 2019 01:06 · Andrew Griffin]

[13 December 2019 01:07 · Andrew Griffin]

Count Binface and Lord Buckethead face off at Uxbridge count

[13 December 2019 01:08 · Andrew Griffin]

Conservatives hold Nuneaton

The Tories have held onto Nuneaton, the first seat from the key battleground area of the West Midlands. Marcus Jones wins the seat with a considerable majority: 13,144, and a 60.6% share of the vote.

The Labour to Conservative swing is nearly 10%.

[13 December 2019 01:11 · Andrew Griffin]

Conservatives hold Broxbourne

The Tories have kept the Hertfordshire with a massive share of the vote: Charles Walker now has a 19,807 majority, and got 65.6% of the vote.

It's one of the safest Conservative seats there is. And it just got safer: the Conservatives are up 3.4 points.

[13 December 2019 01:16 · Andrew Griffin]

Tom Watson says Jeremy Corbyn doesn't 'have to go'

Labour's Tom Watson was asked on Channel 4 if Jeremy Corbyn had to go and he replied: "No I don't think he has to go. I think more importantly before you have any talk of a leadership election in the Labour Party, first of all let's find out if these exit polls are correct.

"But if they do represent a big defeat for us, we have to have a proper analysis of why this has happened.

"We've stood on two manifestos that are broadly similar in the last two elections. Many of the policies within them the polls told us were popular with voters.

"We need to find out what went wrong."

The former deputy leader said a "root and branch analysis" was required to work out whether the Labour Party could "build an electoral coalition again in the years ahead".

He added: "Boris Johnson is going to rule this country for five years. The Labour Party can find some space for itself to understand what it has to do to reconnect with the millions of voters it's lost in the last decade, otherwise it won't have a future."