Election results – live: Boris Johnson says NHS will be priority as he reaches out to Remainers following historic win
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Your support makes all the difference.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.
Conservatives win Wolverhampton South West from Labour and hold Telford
Another couple of victories in the west midlands for the Tories.
Tom Watson loses seat
The Conservatives have won West Bromwich – and with it, beaten former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.
Labour holds Islington South & Finsbury
Emily Thornberry – one of the many contenders to be leader after Jeremy Corbyn – keeps her seat, and says the fightback starts now.
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry said she feels a "bitter disappointment" but said Labour is "not broken".
Speaking from the election count in north London, where she held her Islington South and Finsbury seat with a reduced majority, Ms Thornberry said: "I feel distraught, that we've lost so many great comrades in Parliament and I feel so disappointed."
Labour holds Doncaster North
Another Labour big beast holds on: Ed Miliband has kept his seat. But it's very close, with a majority of just 2,370, and a big split between Conservative and the Brexit Party.
Liberal Democrats win Richmond Park from the Tories
Zac Goldsmith has lost his seat in spectacular fashion. The Liberal Democrats' Sarah Olney wins with a majority of nearly 8,000.
Conservatives gain High Peak from Labour
Another northern seat flips from Labour to the Tories. High Peak in Derbyshire elects Robert Largan.
Jeremy Corbyn wins his seat
The Labour leader has commanded a very safe majority in his Islington North constituency. But that is far from shocking – what will be more important is the speech he may give after.
Dominic Raab wins in Esher and Walton seeing off the Lib Dem threat
Sinn Fein wins Belfast North from the DUP
Nigel Dodds, the DUP leader in Westminster, has lost his seat. And it is a key seat: since it was created in 1885, it has always been held by unionists.
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