YOU JAVING A LAUGH?
BBC election gaffe as Emily Maitlis mistakes Boris Johnson’s protection officer for Chancellor Sajid Javid
EMILY Maitlis was left red-faced today after mistaking Boris Johnson's protection officer for Chancellor Sajid Javid.
The veteran journalist was speaking over footage showing the newly elected Prime Minister emerging from the door of No.10, waving to the crowds.
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"There he goes," she tells viewers who have tuned into the live BBC coverage. "Sajid Javid Chancellor, Boris Johnson... jumping into....".
The searing Prince Andrew interviewer had mistook Johnson's bodyguard - a bald-headed man at his side - for the Chancellor.
Maitlis soon realised her error, mumbling: "Sorry that was not Sajid Javid that was a very quick look at that."
'STONKING WIN'
It was a long night for journalists as the third election in five years saw Johnson romping to a 363 seat victory.
As Maitlis made the gaffe, the Prime Minister was setting off to Buckingham Palace to meet the Queen after his landslide victory.
He arrived at Buckingham Palace just before 11am where he met with the Queen and was invited to form a Government.
The ecstatic Tory boss earlier said his "stonking" win has given him a "powerful mandate to get Brexit done" as humiliated Jeremy Corbyn vowed to quit.
The results mean Britain's political chaos could finally be over, leaving Mr Johnson with the numbers to finally push his Brexit deal through Parliament in just weeks.
Mr Johnson was applauded and cheered by supporters as he gave a tub-thumping speech in Westminster just after 7am, following the Tories' best election win since 1983.
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'SMASHED THE ROADBLOCK'
Thanking the British people for putting their trust in him, he said in echoes of Tony Blair after his 1997 landslide: "We did it, we pulled it off!
"We broke the deadlock, we smashed the roadblock and a new dawn rises on a new day."
The PM insisted that "getting Brexit done is the irrefutable, inarguable decision of the British people" after the night's results.
"We will get Brexit done on time, by 31 January, no ifs, no buts, no maybes," he promised.
And the decisive win has "put an end to those miserable threats of a second referendum".
In a stark message to those who have been pushing for a rerun of the 2016 Brexit contest, he said: "That's it. Put a sock in the megaphone."
He joked: "Let's get Brexit done. But first, let's get breakfast done."
Speaking directly to voters in the North and Midlands who helped the Tories overturn more than a dozen seats from Labour, he said he would make it his "mission to work night and day, flat out" to earn their support in the future.
"You may have only lent us your vote," he continued.
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"Your hand may have quivered over the ballot paper before you put your cross in the box.
"I am humbled you put your trust in me and in us, and I will never take your support for granted," he promised.
"Your voice has been heard, and about time too."
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