By Lara O'Reilly and Richard Chidwick

The Conservative candidate for Putney paved her way into Parliament last night by retaining her seat by a landslide majority.

Justine Greening, 41, who has been tipped for future success in the cabinet by her party members,  firmly won the seat by a majority of 10,053 with 21,223 votes compared to Labour’s total of 11,170.

In her winning speech she said: “It is the greatest privilege of my life to represent Putney."

“It is a huge honour to be re-elected."

A 2.4 per cent swing was required by Labour’s Stuart King to gain control and was number 30 on Labour’s target list.

Greening spoke of the recession and how the Conservative party plan to approach it.

She said: “We need to have this crisis tackled today not tomorrow. We need to turn the page from the past and start writing a new chapter and move this country and sort out the mess of the last 13 years.”

Greening was elected as MP for Putney in 2005 where she received 13,731 results gaining a 4.8 per cent majority.

Greening also stood for the Conservatives in the 2001 General Election for Ealing Acton and Shepherd’s Bush and came second.

Labour candidate, King won the nomination of every single Labour branch in his constituency to stand for the seat in 2007.

King was born in Wandsworth – to a dustman father and a mother who worked in Boots on Putney High Street.

The Liberal Democrats attained just 6,907 votes, coming third in front of the BNP with 459 and UKIP with 435.

Disappointed by the result, but not surprised with the outcome, the Liberal candidate for Putney, James Sandbach, said Lib Dem-supporting students in the area should still be happy with their vote.

He said: “The Lib Dem policy does sit well with students – we are the only party that will abolish tuition fees.

“We understand education is a right not a privilege.”

The seat covers Putney, Southfields and Roehampton.