Inside Politics: Johnson in dreamland as he gets his big majority

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Wow. Boris Johnson will be feeling high as a kite this morning, in a state of ecstatic intoxication as his Tory party win an unexpectedly comfortable majority. For everyone else, the terrible hangover has begun. One Labour candidate warned he would need “strongly hallucinogenic drugs” to get through this election, and it has indeed turned out to be an extremely bad trip for the party. Jeremy Corbyn is quitting, sending his supporters into a horrible comedown from heady visions of a socialist government. Jo Swinson, meanwhile, has endured the mother of all downers – losing her seat in Scotland to the SNP. Let’s ignore our splitting headaches, crack open the Red Bull and break this thing down. I’m Adam Forrest, and welcome to The Independent’s daily Inside Politics briefing.

Inside the bubble

Our political editor Andrew Woodcock on what to look out for the rest of today: