UK General Election Misjudgment: Dismay For May Who Finds The Politics Of Greed Don't Pay
Executive Summary
The smart money had increasingly been on a hung parliament in the UK, with the ruling Conservative party being punished for several policy slip-ups, perceived dithering by Prime Minister Theresa May and her insistence on a clean and hard Brexit led by her alone. The June 8 election did not need to be called, and today, May is ruing the fact that she has lost both the party's absolute majority and her mandate to lead on a hard Brexit.