Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has secured a parliamentary majority, defeating the Labour Party for the fourth general election in a row in a contest largely defined by the desire to “get Brexit done”. Results were still coming in when we produced this newsletter but it was clear fairly early on in the night that the Conservatives have made inroads into regions they’ve never won before.

The shape of the victory is significant in practical terms because it gives Johnson the headroom he needs to push on with his Brexit plans. But, as Tom Quinn notes, it also raises interesting questions about the future shape of the Tory Party – will we see it changing now that it has a very different coalition of supporters behind it?

In Scotland, the SNP triumphed, and has wasted no time in calling for a second independence referendum off the back of its gains.

Of course, significant reflection is in order for Labour, which promised big and reaped little. Jeremy Corbyn has already confirmed that he will not lead the party into any future elections and that some soul searching will begin immediately to work out what went wrong.

Meanwhile, Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson, who began the campaign proposing herself as a candidate for prime minister, has ended it by losing her seat. And the Brexit Party failed to win any seats at all.

It was quite the night. Academic experts stayed up as late as they possibly could to make sense of it all. Stay tuned – we’ve got lots more in depth analysis of the result to come.

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