BRITAIN-VOTE-BREXIT-BLYTH

Pedestrians pass a Pundland store in the town of Blyth in northeast England on December 13, 2019 the day after the former mining town voted in a Conservative MP for the first time in its history contributing to the Tory party's landslide victory. - UK Prime Minister and Conservative leader Boris Johnson proclaimed a political "earthquake" Friday after his thumping election victory cleared Britain's way to finally leave the European Union after years of damaging deadlock over Brexit. To secure the landslide victory the Conservative Party took a swath of seats from the Labour Party's traditional heartlands in the north and the midlands bringing about Labour's worst election defeat since 1935. One of the first results emphasised Labour's woes, with the former safe seat of Blyth Valley in a one-time mining area in northeastern England voting Tory for the first time in its history. (Photo by Lindsey Parnaby / AFP) (Photo by LINDSEY PARNABY/AFP via Getty Images)