12 June, 2017
Some say that remarkable win for Labour - echoed elsewhere in places with big student populations - suggests that a rise in college-age voters helped prevent a widely expected victory for Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives in Thursday's election.
Clinging to power, May said the Tories would form a minority government with the Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland, which won 10 seats.
DUP leader Arlene Foster confirmed that she had spoken to May and that they would speak further to "explore how it may be possible to bring stability to this nation at this time of great challenge", the BBC reported.
The Conservatives still hold the largest number of seats in Parliament but lost an overall majority.
May's majority in parliament until the snap election was only held by 17 seats, but now she is at a considerable disadvantage.
May returned to Downing Street where, looking calm and fresh after a hard night, announced that she planned to form a government to "lead Britain forward at this critical time for our country".
Meanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the early results showed May had lost her mandate and called for her to resign.
May's party is short of the 326 it needed for an outright majority and fairly down from the 330 seats it had before the election. He's saved his own skin because most of his own lawmakers a year ago voted to depose him.
Her office said later that the key finance, foreign, Brexit, interior and defence ministers would remain unchanged. And it also hands a veto to her new partners in the DUP, who want to avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the island at all costs. And, it would permit Britain to make its own trade deals and control the making of laws and enforcement in its territory.
But if May's stance on Brexit was oddly slippery, so was Corbyn's. A "soft" Brexit would remove Britain as a member of the European Union, but permit it to remain in the single market. When voters stunned him and Europe by voting to leave, he resigned, leaving May to deal with the mess.
Dogus didn't go as far as some Labour candidates who distanced themselves from Corbyn - one even wrote to reassure voters that she understood their misgivings about Corbyn, who the Conservatives bet would be "toxic" to Britons due to his associations with militant groups. We are ready to do everything we can to put our programme into operation.
Kalmbacher, a Sanders supporter, was among the American political geeks who joined British expats and vacationers at the Churchill Tavern in Midtown Manhattan to watch the United Kingdom election results roll in Thursday night.
A stony-faced Mrs May, speaking on the doorstep of her official Downing Street residence, said the government would provide certainty and lead Britain in talks with the European Union to secure a successful Brexit deal. "Jeremy Corbyn has done a huge job here, he's done pretty well on Snapchat, Facebook, you know - stuff young people look at - and we've been inspired by this", French said. "If the Brexit Secretary is considering putting the single market back on the table then the whole process is now seriously damaged", he tweeted.
"Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the SNP, who are likely to have mopped up the votes between them, would have outnumbered the Tories and are likely to have defeated the PM in a Queen's Speech vote, paving the way for a coalition led by Mr Corbyn".
Now enraged Tory MPs are reportedly plotting to dislodge wounded Mrs May from No10 in a ruthless bid to revamp the party. Political observers said the latest losses mean a vote about independence is unlikely in the near future. Caty Weaver was the editor.
