UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s “disgusting, desperate attempt to stay in power”
NOVANEWS
By Stuart Littlewood
“It was an amazing own goal. We didn’t shoot ourselves in the foot, we shot ourselves in the head.”
That’s how one long-established backbench Conservative MP summed up the unnecessary snap election called by Theresa May which has left the UK almost ungovernable at a key moment in its history.
The Conservatives already had a 17-seat majority in the House of Commons. They were riding high in the opinion polls but May wanted more in order to strengthen her hand in the Brexit negotiations. She needed 326 seats for a majority. Thanks to her cack-handed campaign and a surprise surge in support for her main opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, she won only 318.
Vanity mission
The British people had given Parliament a mandate to leave the European Union and May should have go...
