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Britain Takes Decisive Electoral Turn

Jamie Dettmer

   Britons woke Friday to an utterly transformed political landscape
   following an electoral earthquake that has ripped up modern British
   politics, and whose tremors will be felt for years to come.

   Prime Minister Boris Johnson's emphatic win in the country's third
   general election in four years -- giving the Conservatives, also known
   as Tories, their biggest parliamentary majority in more than a quarter
   of a century -- marks a decisive turn in the country's fortunes
   following the instability triggered by the 2016 Brexit referendum, say
   analysts.

   Armed with an 80-seat majority, the biggest at a general election since
   Margaret Thatcher's in 1987, Johnson's government now will be able to
   end the deadlock in Britain's Parliament and deliver on the
   Conservative promise to "get Brexit done" without further delay.
   Britain will almost certainly exit the European Union by the end of
   January, triggering a second and likely trickier stage of negotiations
   with Brussels over the country's future political and trade relations
   with the European continent.

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