• The premier's plan: Boris Johnson's next steps: forming a new cabinet, voting in Westminster and completing Brexit

Boris Johnson undertook a triumphant tour of "Brexit territory" to personally thank the historic voters of the Labor Party for having changed their jackets and having allowed them the absolute majority (365 deputies) that will allow them to consummate the exit of the EU on January 31 .

"Our country has now embarked on a wonderful adventure," said the 'premier' in his case for Sedgefield, the electoral district of Tony Blair, who voted first for the Conservative Party since the 1930s. "We will regain our momentum and trust in ourselves. We will make things better and in another way as a country. "

"No one wanted these elections before Christmas, but what you have done is incredible," Johnson added to his voters in northern England. "You have changed the political landscape and the future of the country for the better. I know that many of you have changed the voting habits of several generations, and I want you to know that the Conservative Party will give you back the trust placed in us."

Johnson will start profiling his new cabinet on Sunday and hopes to have it ready on Monday. On Thursday he will advance his Government program in the Queen's Speech and on Friday he will foreseeably vote on his Brexit agreement with Brussels in the new Parliament.

The electoral debacle began to pass in the meantime in the Labor Party, with the departure of John McDonnell, Jeremy Corbyn's left hand for economic affairs. McDonnell announced that he will not return to the cabinet in the "shadow" of the Labor, although he exculpated his leader for the worst result of the Labor in 90 years.

Unlike 2017, when Corbyn "resurrected" against all odds in the campaign against Theresa May, thanks above all to the electoral mobilization of the Momentum internal current, the division and confusion has reigned in recent weeks in the Labor ranks, without a clear message and without the necessary emphasis on the "red wall" of the industrial belt of England, which was dyed blue overnight.

"Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most honest, sincere and committed politicians I know," said John McDonnell, who acknowledged however that the time for relief has come. "I hope that the new leadership will serve to advance on issues such as Brexit, so that it works for everyone, such as grotesque economic inequality or climate change ... Although I fear that this Government supported by the fossil fuel industry will let go the opportunity to save the planet for the next five years. "

Corbyn anticipated his intention to resign at the beginning of the year and to open a "period of reflection" from here until then. Leading Labor figures, such as London Mayor Sadiq Khan or Deputy Margaret Hodge, have publicly asked Corbyn to wait no longer and resign now.

In the case of Corbyn's resignation, as happened with his predecessor Ed Miliband when he resigned after the 2015 electoral fiasco, the executive committee could appoint an interim leader until the call for internal elections. Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, and Foreign spokeswoman Emily Thornberry, (both supporters of the stay in the EU) appear as favorites to Corbyn's succession, with Deputies Rebecca Long-Bailey, Angela Rayner, Jess Phillips and Lisa Nandy also taking positions.

The Liberal Democratic Party has fallen for its part in another of its worrying identity crisis after the "prick" of 12-D with the slogan "Stop Brexit". After the resignation of Jo Swinson, unable to revalidate his seat in Dunbartonshire (Scotland), three candidates stand out as possible leaders: veteran Ed Davey and deputies Layla Moran and Christine Jardin.

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