Boris Johnson has attempted damage control over his narrow confidence vote victory as a positive, describing the outcome as "good news."

Here the UK Prime Minister is seen leaving Parliament with a police presence on Monday (June 6).

"I think it's an extremely good, positive, conclusive, decisive result which enables us to move on to unite," Johnson said in a media interview shortly after the vote.

"What it means is that as a government, we can move on and focus on the stuff that really matters to people," Johnson said.

He added that the result gives his government "an opportunity to put behind us all the stuff that people in the media like going on about."

Johnson said he was "not interested" in calling a snap general election -- although he did not rule out one entirely.

Boris leaves parliament with police escort