British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was time for Prime Minister Theresa May to stand down after election results indicated she had lost votes, support and the confidence of voters.
Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party will fail to win a parliamentary majority in Britain's election, according to an exit poll on Thursday, a shock result that would plunge domestic politics into turmoil and could delay Brexit talks.
"But just as the SNP must listen to the result on the independence referendum, we also have to listen to voters who did not give the UK Conservative Party the mandate we sought". Nick Clegg, the party's former leader who was deputy Prime Minister under the 2010 coalition with the Conservatives, lost his seat, while the party's leader Tim Farron held on with a narrow majority.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called on the Prime Minister to resign, saying she should "go and make way for a government that is truly representative of this country". Repeatedly, she promised there would no election again until the next scheduled vote in 2020.
Analysts see this as May attempting to do just what the then-PM David Cameron and other major party leaders were criticised for failing to do in the run-up to the first independence referendum: provide a positive message of unity. The opposition Labour Party were forecast to win 266 seats, with the Scottish National Party on 34 and the Liberal Democrats on 14.
For the election to produce a majority government, the biggest party theoretically must win at least 326 seats of the 650 United Kingdom constituencies.
Sturgeon suggested that she was ready to work with Labour, the second-biggest party in parliament, and others, to keep the Conservatives from five more years in power. "But if we get a softer Brexit or more of a globalist stance from the UK.it's good for Europe, the UK and U.S. assets", he said. The party also lost two of their biggest names in Westminster - Depute Leader of the party Angus Robertson and former First Minister Alex Salmond.
The night was marked by a collapse in Ukip support and a rash of high-profile losses for the SNP, as British politics returned to a two-party system on the greatest scale since the 1970s.
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Manufacturing employment fell by 1,000 jobs last month as payrolls in the automobile sector dropped 1,500 amid declining sales. She said workers who skip out of jobs, whether to hang out with friends or care for family members, face little repercussion.
Labour said it would push ahead with Brexit but would scrap May's negotiating plans and make its priority maintaining the benefits of both the EU single market and its customs union, arguing no deal with the EU would be the worst possible outcome.
Rachel Sheard, who was casting her vote near the site of Saturday's attack in London, said the election had not gone as expected - and that it certainly wasn't about Brexit.
"They wanted this election to be very much a kind of Brexit vote and I don't think that's in the hearts and minds of Londoners at the minute, (not) almost as much as the security is", said Sheard, 22. He, like the government in 1923, carried on for a short time (seven months), before another election took place, which resulted in a Labour majority of three.
May was criticized for making a number of U-turns on social welfare and she came under fire for a controversial proposal on who should pay for the cost of care for the elderly, a policy that became known as the "dementia tax".
The Tory former minister Anna Soubry said she should "consider her position" after a "dreadful" campaign. As the polls suggested a tightening race, pollsters spoke less often of a landslide and raised the possibility that May's majority would be eroded.
Labour seized on steep cuts in police numbers implemented as part of a Conservative austerity programme, although May insisted she had protected funding for counter-terrorism.
Ms Sturgeon pledged she would "reflect carefully" on the result as she stressed the need for politicians to "try to bring people together to bridge divides and to find a way forward that is routed in consensus".
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