It’s an image which will please those who voted Conservative, but probably upset those who hoped to see Jeremy Corbyn given the keys to 10 Downing Street.

Boris Johnson stands at the front and centre, with MPs stretching back all around two staircases as if they’re the friends and family at a wedding.

It comes after the Conservatives performed the best in any general election since Margaret Thatcher in 1987.

Johnson now has a majority of 80, including more than 100 colleagues elected for the first time, many of them from former Labour areas across the north and Midlands.

He will use it to get his Withdrawal Agreement Bill (Wab) to implement Brexit approved so the UK can formally leave the EU by the end of January.

The PM has pledged to bring the Bill back before the Commons before Christmas but it is not yet known when MPs will begin voting on it.

Ahead of a private speech to new Tory MPs, a Number 10 source said: ‘This election and the new generation of MPs that have resulted from Labour towns turning blue will help change our politics for the better.

‘The PM has been very clear that we have a responsibility to deliver a better future for our country and that we must repay the public’s trust by getting Brexit done.

‘That’s why the first piece of legislation new MPs will vote on will be the Withdrawal Agreement Bill.’