Challenges remain for British PM despite landslide win

The Labor-supporting newspaper Daily Mirror said the nation will wait anxiously to see what sort of PM Johnson will be, unshackled with his large majority.

"Will he be able to bridge the country's chronic north-south chasm for those many Labor voters who went blue (by voting Conservative) ... or will Labor backers who 'lent' their vote come to regret their decision if the PM betrays them," said the newspaper.

It cited Britain's underfunded NHS, Brexit and its long-term relationship with the EU, the knife-crime epidemic, the environment and Johnson's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump as his key challenges.

At the other end of the spectrum, the Financial Times, a business newspaper, said the Conservatives have to move fast to boost growth or face some difficult financial realities, with business groups warning there are still big barriers to resuming investment.

Big challenges facing Johnson and Chancellor Sajid Javid include the appointment of a successor to Mike Carney as governor of the Bank of England, framing its first spending budget, kick-starting growth against a dismal economic background and looking beyond Brexit after Britain's departure from the EU on Jan. 31, said the FT.