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British election: Theresa May to seek permission from Queen Elizabeth II to form a government. Prime Minister May will meet with the queen on Friday morning after her Conservative Party lost its majority in Parliament in Thursday's election. The outcome resulted in a so-called hung Parliament, in which neither May's party nor the main opposition Labour Party led by Jeremy Corbyn received enough support to form a government without help from smaller parties. The Conservatives remain the biggest party. Ref. USAToday.

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MPs hijack Brexit deal in shock vote. In a stunning blow to the UK’s PM, MPs have voted to hijack Brexit if her withdrawal agreement is defeated - as is almost certain. Source 2a.

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British lawmakers crush Theresa May's Brexit deal by record margin. Theresa May's Brexit deal has been crushed by a record margin as British lawmakers rejected it by 432 votes to 202.

After eight days of parliamentary debate and 200 speeches, members of the House of Commons ignored the Prime Minister's final pleas and delivered a humiliating verdict on her plan to take Britain out of the European Union.

The result -- the worst parliamentary defeat for a British government in the modern era -- means the Prime Minister now faces a deep political crisis, with no clear path out of the mess. Ref. CNN.

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Not surprised. The people who wanted to exit the EU were small in number and gripped about immigration issues rather than economic prosperity.

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She probably needs to resign now. After all that work to make brexit happen and then to have it voted down like that means she has no support.

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She [passed] the vote of no confidence so I guess someone likes her even if they do not like her plan.

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No, the people that wanted to exit the EU outvoted those that wanted to stay…

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Are you talking about the last vote they had? Wasn't there a small margin between those for and against and when independent poles were conducted it was found that most people didn't want to leave the EU?