Britain will leave the European Union at breakneck speed, unleashing months of difficult trade negotiations with Europe, following a sweeping Conservative victory in yesterday’s election, ending three and a half years of Brexit deadlock. Prime Minister Boris Johnson – just weeks after suffering a series of apparently career-blighting parliamentary setbacks – becomes the Conservatives’ most dominant prime minister since Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. In the 650-seat House of Commons, Johnson’s party finished more than 160 seats ahead of opposition Labour, which slumped to its worst result since 1935. On the brink of ... (full story)