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Opposition calls for May’s resignation after election gamble backfires
Labour leader James Corbyn has told UK Prime Minister Theresa May to step down after her election gamble to win a stronger mandate appeared to have backfired.
A joint poll by BBC, SKY, and ITV news said May’s ruling Conservatives would win 314 seats, short of a majority in Britain’s 650-seat parliament. The opposition Labour Party, led by Jeremy Corbyn, was projected to win 266 seats.
In the event of a hung parliament – where no party wins enough seats to have a majority in the House of Commons – the two major parties, Conservatives and Labour, will try and form a coalition government with one of the smaller parties.
“At this time, more than anything else, this country needs a period of stability,” a grim-faced May said after winning her own parliamentary seat of Maidenhead in southeast England.
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“If … the Conservative Party has won the most seats and probably the most votes, it will be incumbent on us to ensure that we have that period of stability and that is exactly what we will do.”
After winning his own seat in north London, Corbyn said May’s attempt to win a bigger mandate had failed.
“The mandate she’s got is lost Conservative seats, lost votes, lost support and lost confidence,” he said.
“I would have thought that’s enough to go, actually, and make way for a government that will be truly representative of all of the people of this country.”
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