Boris Johnson heads north to celebrate crushing election win

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was heing to rrn England on Saturday to meet newly elected Conservative Party lawmakers in working-class heartland that turned its back on opposition Labour Party in this week’s election and helped give him an 80-seat majority.

In a victory speech outside 10 Downing Street on Friday, Johnson called for an end to acrimony that has festered throughout country since divisive 2016 Brexit referendum, and urged Britain to “let healing begin.”

Johnson’s campaign mantra to “get Brexit done″ and widespre unease with leership style and socialist policies of opposition leer Jeremy Corbyn combined to give ruling Conservatives 365 seats in House of Commons, its best performance since party icon Margaret Thatcher’s last victory in 1987. Labour slumped to 203 seats, it's worst showing since 1935.

While Johnson was on a victory lap Saturday, Corbyn — who has pledged to stand down next year — was under fire from within his own party.

Former lawmaker Helen Goodman, one of many Labour legislators to lose ir seats in rrn England, told BBC rio that “ biggest factor was obviously unpopularity of Jeremy Corbyn as leer.”

Armed with his hefty new majority, Johnson is set to start process next week of pushing Brexit legislation through Parliament to ensure Britain leaves EU by Jan. 31 delines. Once he’s passed that hurdle — breaking three years of parliamentary delock — he has to seal a tre deal with bloc by end of 2020.

Johnson owes his success, in part, to tritionally Labour-voting working-class constituencies in rrn England that backed Conservatives because of party’s promise to deliver Brexit. During 2016 referendum, many of those communities voted to leave EU because of concerns that immigrants were taking ir jobs and neglect by central government in London.