Boris Johnson holds last Cabinet meeting ahead of election 'none of us particularly wanted'

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has held his last Cabinet meeting ahead of a General Election he said "none of us particularly wanted."

Parliament will be dissolved at a minute past midnight on Wednesday, as Britain heads to the polls on December 12.

Mr Johnson praised them his Cabinet members for securing the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, telling them: "We have achieved something that people thought we really could not do, and that was get a new deal - a great new deal - on our Brexit from the European Union.

"They said it couldn't be done."

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The prime minister said the government "can be very proud" of what they had achieved in a short period of time.

He said that a priority was to get Brexit done quickly, adding: "Do you want to go forward with our agenda, which is to get Brexit done and then get on with delivering all the wonderful things we want to do for this country in 2020.

"Or do you want to waste 2020, which could be an absolutely fantastic year for the nation with two more referendums.

"What a disastrous, what a calamitous way to spend 2020."

The prime minister ended his speech by rallying Cabinet members ahead of the General Election campaign, which begins on Wednesday, saying: "You look as though you're all full of beans."