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 as he gloomily stared at the result on his phone 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.

His 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 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.