United Kingdom election: Theresa May's 'snap election' gamble backfires

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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn insists "I can still be prime minister" as he vows to fight Theresa May's attempt to run a minority government "all the way". British media reported that there will be no formal coalition as neither party thinks it is necessary. The Conservative Party lost eleven seats to finish with 318 seats.

"In the end, the Conservative Party has lost its outright majority, and has had to rely on gains in Scotland to secure a working majority in a hung parliament", he said.

The Northern Ireland party won 10 seats, enough to give May a majority under a partnership in Parliament. The political, economic and institutional uncertainty stemming from the June 2016 Brexit referendum and the upcoming U.K. -EU negotiations is reflected in the firm's Negative Outlook on the nation's AA sovereign rating.

May had unexpectedly called the snap election seven weeks ago, confident of sharply increasing the slim majority - 331 seats out of 650 - she had inherited from predecessor David Cameron before starting negotiations with the European Union over Britain's departure from the bloc, or Brexit.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders congratulated Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party he leads for what's being called one of the most stunning upsets in United Kingdom political history. He had struck a chord with voters by assailing May for slashing popular domestic programs, including education, health and welfare, and for eliminating 20,000 police jobs that he linked to three recent terror attacks on British soil.

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The result also prompted criticism of May from within her own ranks as well as from the opposition. And in the biggest turnout since 1997 they showed her where to go.

The Protestant unionist party also had links with outlawed paramilitary groups during the years of Northern Ireland's "Troubles".

Below are details on what she would need to win and what would happen if she failed to get a majority, with one eye on Brexit. "And our leader needs to take stock as well". The pound fell on currency markets in the wake of the results.

Corbyn advised the humiliated prime minister to pack up and leave and "make way for a government that is truly representative of this country". Labour won 261 seats. But Jeremy Corbyn remains the only statesman Britain has.

So is Britain's European Union exit now in doubt?

"What is unusual is that we have a party like the DUP, which is anti-same-sex marriage, which denies climate change, at the forefront of British politics, and I am absolutely petrified at the prospect of such a "coalition of chaos".

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