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‘A huge great stonking mandate’: Boris’s Tory HQ victory speech

Boris Johnson has just addressed Tory HQ following the Tories’s huge election win. Here is the full text of what he had to say:

Well this is the most incredible…It is a day that many of us have dreamed of, a day when the Conservative party genuinely speaks for every part of the country. We have won from Workington to Woking, we have won in Bishop Auckland, in Darlington, in seats that Conservatives have not won for 100 years or more.

Wrexham! Tony Blair’s old seat in Sedgefield. We have turned Redcar ‘Blue-car’.

We have won in Clwyd South, which I first contested 22 years ago and was soundly thrashed. We win in Kensington and we win in Clwyd South – that is a party that speaks for the entire country and it is a tribute to all of you here, all of you unbelievable young thrusters.

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