British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative Party won an overall majority in the House of Commons following the general election held on Thursday.
By 10:40 GMT on Friday morning, the Conservatives have secured 325 out of a total of 650 seats in the parliament, winning an effective majority to govern again after leading a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats in the last 5 years.
The victory means that the Conservatives would be able to form a majority government on their own, without the need to seek help from other minor parties, for the first time since 1992.
The opposition was realing after the results as a number of opposition party leaders chose to resign after not winning seats.
The leader of the British Labour party, Ed Miliband, resigned at his party’s headquarters in London on Friday.
The result from Thursday’s election left the Labour party in tatters, and Miliband called it quits in the wake of the defeat.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg had resigned earlier as was expected on Friday, after seeing his party humiliated as a response to his decision to join the Conservatives in government five years ago and abandon high profile election pledges.
The leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Nigel Farage, also stepped down after he failed to win the seat he was running for in Thanet South.