Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party is on course to secure a stonking majority of 368 seats , according to the exit poll.

Labour has been dealt a heavy blow by voters and is on track to win just 191 seats, which would be the party’s worst performance in a general election since 1935.

It would put Labour down 71 seats on 2017, when the party did better than expected and denied then Prime Minister Theresa May a majority Tory government.

As news filtered into Labour HQ there were reports of staff in tears as the country rejected the party at the ballot box.

According to The Sunday Times reporter Gabriel Pogrund the atmosphere at Labour HQ is miserable with activists now reeling from the devastating exit poll.

Taking to Twitter, he said: “A full 10 minutes after exit poll, staffer at Labour HQ says it remains deadly silent on the 8th floor elections hub.

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“No one has said a word. I can just hear weeping and coughing around me. Extraordinary.”

He then tweeted a snap of “Corbynista Victory Ale”, adding there were “hundreds” more that were left unopened.

Labour veterans are now seeking to pin the blame for the defeat on Corbyn's leadership.

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Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson blasted the leader's “disastrous” campaign and that he was “incapable of leading”.

Mr Johnson also took aim at Corbyn loyalists Momentum and said he wanted them booted from Labour.

Speaking on ITV, he said: “You will hear the culture of betrayal from Momentum and I want them gone. They can get back to their student politics.

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“I feel really angry about this experiment of going back to the future. I feel really angry about this – that we preserved with Corbyn for this experiment of back to the future.”

It is expected that Jeremy Corbyn will stand down by Monday following Labour’s miserable performance in the polls.

Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell ruled out stepping in as an interim leader for the party and hinted that both he and Mr Corbyn would step down.

He told Sky News: "Decisions will be made appropriately in the right timescale once we know the results I’m sure.

“But let me make it clear, I’m not standing for the Leader of the Labour Party. I’ve said that time and time again, either as a temporary or a permanent. That’s not what I want to do.”

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