We are not masters, we are servants – Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson has told incoming Conservative MPs that “we are the servants now” as he celebrated in one of the Tories’ biggest election night scalps.

On a visit to Sedgefield on Saturday, the former constituency of ex-Labour prime minister Tony Blair, Mr Johnson hailed Conservative activists for having “changed the political landscape”, Sky News reports.

Sedgefield, which Mr Blair won with a majority of more than 25,000 in 1997 and had been held by the party since 1935, was among a swathe of Labour-held strongholds to be won by the Conservatives on Thursday night.

Speaking at a cricket club in Tony Blair’s former constituency of Sedgefield on Saturday afternoon, Mr Johnson said: “Remember, we are not the masters. We are the servants now. “And our job is to serve the people of this country and to deliver on our priorities.” Mr Johnson told the MPs for Darlington, Stockton South and Bishop Auckland among others they would do “fantastic things”. “Our country has embarked on a wonderful adventure,” he said.  “We’re going to recover our national confidence, our mojo, our self-belief”, he said.

Via Sky News / Telegraph