UK elections poll results

The making of an unlikely political hero: Boris Johnson had more skeletons in his closet than Tutankhamen - but now he's handed the Tories their biggest victory since Margaret Thatcher

Boris Johnson is already celebrating tonight as the Conservatives stomp to victory and he gets set to stay in office for years.

The Prime Minister's gamble on a snap election looks to have paid off with the Tories likely to win a sizeable majority, according to a dramatic exit poll tonight. 

But it didn't always look that way - Boris has been called Britain's flawed 'Marmite man' - a philandering MP with a volatile personal life who embarked on extra-marital affairs and allegedly got two of his mistresses pregnant.  

He enjoyed a gilded path to Number 10 but in the process drew attention to his messy private life; two ex-wives, a pole-dancing technology advisor, a love-child and a relationship with a woman 24 years younger.