Moment Hugh Grant saw exit poll announcing a huge Tory majority

Arch-Remainer Hugh Grant was ashen-faced as he read the election exit poll which predicted the collapse of pro-EU parties and a thumping majority for Brexiteer Boris Johnson.  

The politically outspoken actor has been canvassing with Labour and Lib Dem candidates during the campaign and urged his fans to vote tactically to deny the Conservatives in marginal seats.  

But as he tonight laid eyes on these parties’ woeful performance, the Love Actually star looked down-trodden with his wife Anna Eberstein. 

In a short and sour admission of defeat, Grant tweeted: ‘There goes the neighbourhood,’ a reference to Britain now likely pulling out of the EU. 

Scores of triumphant Brexiteers immediately seized on the exit poll to gloat at Grant, who has been scathing of Eurosceptics during the campaign.  

The politically outspoken actor has been canvassing with Labour and Lib Dem candidates (pictured with ultra-europhile Chuka Umanna) during the campaign and urged his fans to vote tactically to deny the Conservatives in marginal seats

Piers Morgan led the onslaught, replying to Grant: ‘No, there goes your credibility. 

‘The British people listened to your democracy-wrecking garbage & told you to f*ck off.’

The broadcaster further rubbed in the result by following up: ‘Congrats Hugh Grant and Steve Coogan – you helped get Boris a landslide.’  

Both actors have enormous followings but have alienated Brexiteers in this election by their withering assessment of the the Prime Minister’s aim of delivering the 2016 referendum result.

Alan Partridge star Coogan branded Brexiteers ‘ill-informed and ignorant’. 

Ex-Ukip MP Douglas Carswell also piled in with the mockery, tweeting: ‘Well done Hugh Grant, Tony Blair. Chris Patten. Dom Grieve. And all the other Brexit blockers.’ 

The TV stations were quickly awash with Remain backers bemoaning Labour and the Lib Dems’ dismal showing.

John Bercow joined the chorus of sour Remainers by pouring cold water on the Tory promise to ‘get Brexit done’.

Providing punditry on Sky News, the former Commons speaker predicted Britain’s withdrawal from the EU will drag on for ‘five or 10 years’. 

Uber-Remainer Gary Lineker made a veiled attack on the Conservatives, tweeting it was a ‘great win for the blue side’, before going clarifying he was referring to Rangers’ footballing success. 

Staunch left-wing commentator Owen Jones tweeted: ‘I’m so, so sorry guys. Just utterly devastating. Brexit just smashed us. 

‘Keeping together an electoral coalition of Remainers and Leavers as the country bitterly divided just became impossible.’

In a short and sour admission of defeat, Grant tweeted: ‘There goes the neighbourhood,’ a reference to Britain now likely pulling out of the EU

Scores of triumphant Brexiteers immediately seized on the exit poll to gloat at Grant, who has been scathing of Eurosceptics during the campaign

Grant’s largely Remain support base quickly rallied around the dismayed celebrity and the tweet racked up thousands of likes within a few minutes. 

On the campaign stump, he has joined Lib Dem candidate Luciana Berger in her bid to take Finchley and Golders Green and Labour’s mammoth effort to unseat ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith.

Grant was part of a celebrity-fuelled campaign drive by Jeremy Corbyn, who pleaded with high-profile personalities such as Stormzy and Little Mix to publicly swing behimd the Labour leader.  

But his begging tactics were exposed by comedian Phil Wang, who shared a message from Mr Corbyn asking him to tweet his support. 

Immediately after the exit poll dropped at 10pm, Google searches of ‘how to emigrate’ spiked. 

Uber-Remainer Gary Lineker made a veiled attack on the Conservatives, tweeting it was a ‘great win for the blue side’, before going clarifying he was referring to Rangers’ footballing success

Grant was part of a celebrity-fuelled campaign drive by Jeremy Corbyn, who pleaded with high-profile personalities such as Stormzy (left) and Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall (right) to publicly swing behimd the Labour leader

Mr Corbyn’s begging tactics were exposed by comedian Phil Wang, who shared a message from Mr Corbyn asking him to tweet his support