Hung UK Parliament: Tories Forming a New Government
NOVANEWS
By Stephen Lendman
Global Research
Prime Minister Theresa May laid an egg. Calling for a snap election proved a huge mistake, perhaps her political undoing.
She believed Tories could gain additional majority control of parliament, making it easier to pursue her agenda.
Results proved otherwise as follows:
Needing 326 for majority rule, Tories won 315, Labour 261, the Scottish National Party 35, Lib Dems 12, Democratic Unionist Party 10 and others 13, four seats to be determined from final vote tallies.
Commenting on the outcome, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said
“(p)olitics has changed. (It’s not) going back into the box where it was before. What’s happened is people have said they’ve had quite enough of austerity politics.”
May “wanted a mandate. Well, the mandat...