How long will the Tory rule last?

Former Conservative leader William Hague suggests Boris Johnson is set for ‘decades of dominance in the North’

Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson arrives in Westminster Hall on Monday after his sweeping election victory
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MPs will be sworn in today in the House of Commons following the Conservatives’ biggest election win since Margaret Thatcher’s landslide victory in 1987.

The previous three general elections resulted in two hung parliaments and a majority of just 12 for the Tories, but Boris Johnson now has a resounding 80-seat majority and what he describes as a “stonking mandate” to “Get Brexit Done”.

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