David Cameron emerges winner of Majority for Conservatives in Election 2015

 

David Cameron has won the general election with an outright majority after Labour was virtually wiped out in Scotland and the Liberal Democrat vote collapsed.

Mr Cameron hailed the "sweetest victory" as his party secured the 323 seats needed to form a government without needing to go into coalition. It came after an electoral earthquake in Scotland, with Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP seeing unprecedented swings and decimating Labour north of the border.

 

Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, is set to resign after saying that he was "deeply sorry" about the result in Scotland. Ed Balls, the Shadow Chancellor was the biggest scalp of the night, losing his Leeds seat to the Tories. 

 

In the shock result - which had not been predicted by any opinion poll - Mr Cameron returned to Downing Street in scenes reminiscent of the 1992 general election when John Major triumphed over Neil Kinnock.

Speaking to Conservative activists, he hailed a great victory. Mr Cameron said: "I'm not an old man but I remember casting a vote in '87 and that was a great victory. I remember working just have you been working in '92 and that was an amazing victory. I remember 2010 achieving that dream of getting Labour out and the Tories back in and that was amazing. But I think this is the sweetest victory of all.
"There are so many things to be proud of in this result. The fact we held on in Scotland. The fact we extended our representation in Wales.
"The fact that candidates I have seen work so hard week in, week out, some of them year in, year out, have triumphed in so many seats."