Boris Johnshon's acceptance speech

Here is the full text of Boris Johnson’s acceptance speech after winning election to the office of Mayor of London:

“Thank you very much Mr Meyer, Anthony Meyer that is. I want to thank you, I want to thank the police of course, and my wife Marina and my family, and my utterly brilliant campaign team, the Conservative GLA candidates some of whom were extremely unlucky tonight, and of course the thousands of Conservative activists, the ward captains and knocker-uppers who did such an amazing job today, and indeed yesterday, rather.