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• What Is A Hung Parliament And What Happens If There Is One?

  08-06-2017 23:57
  
  Shock exit poll results on Thursday indicate Theresa May will fall short of an overall majority, meaning the UK could be headed for a hung parliament.According to the BBC/Sky News/ITV poll released at 10pm, the Conservative Party will lose the slim majority it won in 2015.
  If the poll is accurate, the Tories will win 314 seats with Labour behind on 266 - both short of the 326 required to secure a majority.But what is a hung parliament and what could this mean for our future government?
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• UK election: the key numbers and charts

  08-06-2017 23:40 via ft.com
  Rolling visual analysis of the 2017 general election results
  
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• Can you trust exit polls?

  08-06-2017 23:36
  
  The broadcasters’ poll for 2017 has delivered a shock. Are the days of them getting it horrifically wrong behind us?
  • General election 2017 – latest updates• UK election results 2017 – live trackerThursday night’s exit poll put the Conservatives on 314 seats. If this is correct then a combination of Labour (266), the Scottish National party (34) and the Liberal Democrats (14) would have exactly the same number of votes as Theresa May’s party.A minority To
  
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• George Osborne Says General Election 2017 Could Be 'Completely Catastrophic' For Theresa May If Exit Poll True

  08-06-2017 23:33
  
  Former Tory chancellor George Osborne has said that the outcome of the election could be “completely catastrophic for the Conservatives and Theresa May” if the shock exit polls are correct. 
  According to the BBC/Sky News/ITV poll released at 10pm, the Conservative Party will lose the slim majority it won in 2015, falling 12 seats short of the 326 needed for a majority. 
  Reacting to the poll on ITV News, Osborne said it was “difficult to see how the party would pu
  
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• UK Election 2017 Exit Poll Result Shock Predicts Hung Parliament, Theresa May To Fall Short Of Overall Majority

  08-06-2017 23:00
  
  Theresa May will fall short of an overall majority, the shock general election exit poll has predicted.
  According to the BBC/Sky News/ITV poll conducted by NOP/Ipsos MORI released at 10pm on Thursday, the prime minister’s decision to call a snap election has disastrously backfired.
  If the poll is accurate, the Conservatives will win 314 seats, Labour 266, the SNP 34 and the Lib Dems 14.
  It would mean May would be 12 MPs short of the 326 required for a Commons majority. type=type=Relat
  
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• General Election 2017: Keele University Students 'Turned Away' From Voting In Crucial Marginal

  08-06-2017 22:28
  
  Hundreds of university students have reportedly been turned away from voting in a crucial Labour/Tory marginal.
  Tellers were using an out-of-date register at polling stations for the Newcastle Under Lyme seat, meaning newly-registered Keele University students were not able to vote.
  The university’s history department tweeted the numbers turned away were in the hundreds.100s of newly-registered voters turned away in marginal Newcastle u. L. See below for advice! #Vote2017 @e_horsfall pic.t
  
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• General Election 2017 Exit Poll Result: BBC, Sky News, ITV Survey Predicts Shock Hung Parliament

  08-06-2017 22:20
  
  EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOWLabour wins Newcastle Central with increased majority in first seat to declare 
  Election exit poll predicts Tories short of majority
  Osborne says result would be ‘completely catastrophic’ for May
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• Full results of the UK general election 2017

  08-06-2017 22:17 via ft.com
  View the results of the UK general election by party and by constituency from 10pm
  
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• Voters go to the polls in 2017 Westminster election – as it happened

  08-06-2017 22:00
  
  All the news as the snap election gets under way, with last-minute polls still putting Theresa May’s Tories ahead of Jeremy Corbyn’s LabourThis liveblog has concluded – follow our 2017 election results coverage throughout the nightElection night: hour-by-hour guide plus live results from 10pm
  Get live results updates on Android devicesShare your photos and stories of polling day9.00pm BSTThis blog is wrapping up now. Our election results live blog, manned by Andrew Sparrow, who
  
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• Steve Bell on Donald Trump and the FBI – cartoon

  08-06-2017 21:57
  
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• Analysis shows Theresa May spent half of campaign targeting Labour seats

  08-06-2017 21:48
  
  Conservatives’ offensive strategy laid bare by Guardian analysis that reveals where party leaders visited for campaign stopsFollow the general election liveLive results trackerTheresa May spent more than half of the election campaign in Labour-held seats, demonstrating how confident she is of making gains from Jeremy Corbyn’s party, a Guardian analysis has shown.Of the prime minister’s 70 campaign stops, 57% were in Labour seats such as Halifax in Yorkshire, Ealing Central and
  
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• If Brexit Britain wants to find its place in the world, it’d better start soon | Natalie Nougayrède

  08-06-2017 21:21
  
  The election was a chance to address the many questions attached to leaving the EU – but instead we were given bewilderingly parochial campaignsIt was the most spectacularly inward-looking of elections. Of course, all politics is local, as a US congressman once famously said. Everywhere, people tend to vote according to the preoccupations of their immediate vicinity. No one can be forced to contemplate global trends, shifting geopolitics, conflict dynamics or trade routes before they cast
  
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• The Guardian view on the voting age: time to lower it to 16 | Editorial

  08-06-2017 20:57
  
  The country looks more and more split between the old and the young. It is undemocratic to continue to deny 16-year-olds the voteGeneral elections give an imprecise account of the complex and contradictory opinions held by tens of millions of people. But every vote is counted even if, under Britain’s first-past-the-post system, votes in some seats count more than in others. The voices that are not heard belong to those who do not vote, and those who cannot.Abstention is not a very effectiv
  
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• UK Election: 10 major politicians who might lose their seats

  08-06-2017 20:24 via ft.com
  Polling day: The ‘Portillo moments’ to look out for
  
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• Why it’s becoming impossible to stop the terrorists | Robert Verkaik

  08-06-2017 20:14
  
  The definition of extremism is so fluid that the security services are drowning in cases. Even known suspects can’t be thwarted without the right evidenceThree terror attacks in three months have left the British security services desperately searching for ways to prevent another atrocity being committed in our streets.But the frightening reality is that terrorism has become impossible to police. The attacks in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge were carried out by extremists who ha
  
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• Britain goes to the polls, often in the strangest places - in pictures

  08-06-2017 19:29
  
  Millions of people vote in the general election today, often in unusual places such as swimming pools, launderettes and pubsElection live: all the news and analysisUK election results 2017 – live trackerContinue reading...
  
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• I’m having heart surgery in a few hours. I fear for myself – and the NHS | Giles Fraser

  08-06-2017 19:03
  
  The hospital that is giving me emergency care relies on staff from around the world. The government should treasure it, and themLast Sunday afternoon, on the feast day of Pentecost, I had a heart attack. A pain seized my chest and coursed down my left arm. Maybe, as a middle-aged, overweight diabetic, I shouldn’t have been all that surprised. But I was. Within minutes of phoning 101, I was on my back in St Thomas’ hospital, central London, hooked up to bleeping machines, sweaty and s
  
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• General Election: People Who Vote Differently To Loved Ones Explain How They Deal With Political Differences

  08-06-2017 18:34
  
  If the EU Referendum taught us anything, it’s that differences in political opinion can cause rifts among even the closest family and friends.
  Many have found that the snap General Election, which was called in light of Brexit, has reignited the most heated debates.
  From generational to regional divides or even differences in households, we spoke to people who voted differently to their loved ones to discover how they deal with conflicting political beliefs. ‘We regularly talk a
  
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• Focus turns to east London gym with links to terror attacks

  08-06-2017 18:34 via ft.com
  Locals alerted police to concerns about Islamist activity at nondescript fitness centre
  
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• Ruby Tandoh criticises celebrity cooks for 'suspicious silence' over election

  08-06-2017 17:55
  
  Former Bake Off contestant suggests TV stars such as Jamie Oliver and Paul Hollywood fear damaging cookbook salesRuby Tandoh, a former contestant on The Great British Bake Off, has criticised fellow celebrity cooks for staying quiet about the general election. Tandoh, who was a runner-up in the show in 2013 and has since established herself as a cook and a commentator on food and mental health issues, chastised Jamie Oliver, Nigel Slater, Nigella Lawson, the Hairy Bikers and Bake Off judge Paul
  
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• What should May and Corbyn do the day after the election? Absolutely nothing | Martin Kettle

  08-06-2017 17:43
  
  Britain’s political system requires exhausted party leaders to rush into decisions. They should take time to think instead• General election 2017 live: final polls show Tory lead as Corbyn and May cast votesFor political journalists the Friday after a general election is both the best of times and the worst of times. The good bit is that the day is boiling over with important political stories: who’s in, who’s out, who’s getting which job, how the nation voted. The d
  
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• Diversity is Britain’s greatest strength. It must be at the top of the political agenda | June Sarpong

  08-06-2017 17:35
  
  It’s time for politicians to unlock the huge, untapped potential of our diverse, multicultural society – and confound those who seek to divide us
  •Election 2017 live updatesBritish politicians of all persuasions used to promote diversity as one of the jewels in the crown of our society. Diversity was viewed as a visible indication of the vibrancy of an inclusive, multicultural society, something to be celebrated and reflected throughout all levels of society. In reality however,
  
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• Plymouth blames loss of 1,500 postal voting packs on computer problem

  08-06-2017 17:20
  
  Three constituencies affected including Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport, one of the most marginal seats in region • General election 2017 – live updates
  More than 1,500 postal voting packs have gone missing in Plymouth with the council having to reissue them at the last minute, amid reports that other areas have been affected by similar disruption.Plymouth city council blamed the loss of ballot packs on an IT issue, saying it was urgently investigating. It issued a statement on Wednesd
  
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• As a paediatrician I've seen first-hand the shocking human cost of staff shortages | Neena Modi

  08-06-2017 17:18
  
  Thousands of children’s operations are being cancelled as political short-termism savages the NHS. Solutions exist, but are being ignoredThis week, figures published in the Guardian provided another sorry illustration of how NHS services have been pushed to the brink. More than 46,000 children’s operations were cancelled during the period 2013-14 to 2017-18, and that was just in the 53% of eligible NHS trusts that reported their figures. The numbers are shocking, all the more so as t
  
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• General Election 2017: 20 Results You Don't Want To Miss

  08-06-2017 17:00
  
  An election campaign that started off a foregone conclusion has certainly tightened up in its final weeks.
  With many polls showing Labour have closed the gap on Theresa May and a projected collapse of 2015’s sizeable UKIP vote, there is still everything to play for.
  Results will start to trickle in from about 10.45pm on Thursday and while it’s not over till it’s over, below are some of the seats which could give us key clues as to how things are looking throughout the night:
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• Election Results 2017: 20 Swing And Marginal Constituencies You Don't Want To Miss

  08-06-2017 17:00
  
  An election campaign that started off a foregone conclusion has certainly tightened up in its final weeks.
  With many polls showing Labour have closed the gap on Theresa May and a projected collapse of 2015’s sizeable UKIP vote, there is still everything to play for.
  Results will start to trickle in from about 10.45pm on Thursday and while it’s not over till it’s over, below are some of the seats which could give us key clues as to how things are looking throughout the night:
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• Thought this was a dismal campaign from start to finish? Wrong! | Hannah Jane Parkinson

  08-06-2017 16:50
  
  Theresa May running through fields of wheat, Jeremy Corbyn meets a dachshund, Tim Farron challenged by a fish finger …General election 2017 – live updatesThis has been a short election campaign, but it feels like it’s been an eternity, does it not? It has, all in all, been pretty depressing. We’ve had personal attacks, press-smears, tragic events in Manchester and London Bridge, and a general sense of fatigue at all the campaigning and the stump speeches and the debates
  
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• Swing seats and merciless marginals – Election Daily podcast

  08-06-2017 16:36
  
  Jonathan Freedland and Zoe Williams are joined by reporters and analysts to pick out the key seats to watch in the 2017 general election It’s election day and our reporters around the country have dialled in with their key seats to watch out for in a poll that could see wide regional disparities. Jonathan Freedland and Zoe Williams are joined first by Deborah Mattinson, the director of Britain Thinks, who has been conducting focus groups around the country.Continue reading...
  
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• Labour Needs To Overturn This Historic Opinion Polling Phenomenon If It Wants To Win The General Election

  08-06-2017 16:36
  
  Labour’s vote share is more likely to be overestimated in the run up to a General Election than the Tories’, HuffPost UK analysis has found.
  Scrutinising data going back to 1943, HuffPost UK discovered that the average of opinion polls in the week before an election overestimated Labour support in 11 of 19 General Elections.
  In a mirror image, the Conservative vote share was underestimated on 11 occasions.
  Labour will need to overturn that phenomenon to win this year’s election
  
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• Get mobile updates for today's election

  08-06-2017 16:29
  
  A live updating notification will keep you in the picture as the numbers come inElection results liveUK election results 2017 – live trackerOn 8 June, for the UK general election, the Guardian will offer an innovative way to get live election results through notifications on Android devices using a Chrome browser. We have offered live alerts for elections before, for the EU referendum vote, as well as the US presidential election. On the night of the UK general election we will offer two t
  
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• Seen the poll that shows a Labour victory? It's worth checking the methodology

  08-06-2017 15:59
  
  Labour hopes have been raised by a last-minute survey putting Corbyn ahead in the race for No 10. Is it all it’s cracked up to be?General election 2017 – live updates
  As the people of Britain cast their votes in the general election, a poll putting Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party in the lead for the first time is being widely shared on social media. Published by Wired on Wednesday, it gives Labour a 2.8 percentage point lead over the Conservatives.However, it is worth exercising s
  
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• Why was Brexit absent from the UK election?

  08-06-2017 15:58 via ft.com
  No party spelt out a vision for how to tackle the upcoming negotiations
  
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• How The 'Discriminatory' Impact Of Social Care Affects One Woman And Her Father

  08-06-2017 15:15
  
  “Has it got any easier? The answer is no.”
  Nicola Steen’s 94-year-old father Alec was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s 2006. 
  She has not worked full time since 2009. And 50% of her time is spent, along with her sister, looking after her father. “You are managing a care home. A private care home,” she says.
  Theresa May’s initial attempt at a social care policy, branded a “dementia tax”, did not go down well with voters or Tory candidates.
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• Live UK election results seat-by-seat: are we heading for a hung parliament?

  08-06-2017 14:54
  
  Latest general election results from the UK’s 650 constituencies. Find out whether Theresa May and the Conservatives will get the increased majority they asked for, or whether Jeremy Corbyn and Labour can pull off a surprise. Search for your own seat by name or postcode and find out when you can expect a declarationElection results live: all the results, reaction and analysisContinue reading...
  
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• Terror attacks shaped UK election but failed to lift May, experts say

  08-06-2017 14:12 via ft.com
  Public avoided taking partisan view after atrocities in London and Manchester
  
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• Election 2017: voters head to the polls amid tightened security

  08-06-2017 14:03
  
  Polling stations open at 7am, with the 47 million people eligible to vote warned to be alert in ‘unprecedented times’• General election 2017 – live updatesVoting is underway in the general election after polls opened across the UK at 7am on Thursday.Theresa May was the first of the party leaders to vote, accompanied by her husband Philip, at a polling station in her constituency in Maidenhead, Berkshire. She greeted reporters and photographers with a cheery “hello&rd
  
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• James Comey's Testimony On Donald Trump And Russia Investigation

  08-06-2017 13:46
  
  Assurances to an incoming President that he was not under federal investigation. A President’s unprecedented request for loyalty from an FBI director. A “very concerning” request from the President to end an investigation into a devoted presidential appointee. Lawmakers hungry for answers and frustrated by the reticence of national security executives to provide them.
  It’s been a month of extraordinary drama since President Donald Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, rif
  
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• iVote: If Apple did British general elections

  08-06-2017 13:44 via ft.com
  The campaign has had all the tech firm’s stage management but none of its flair
  
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• Why London deserves a thank-you note from the rest of Britain

  08-06-2017 13:13 via ft.com
  If the capital was a nation state, it would have a budget surplus of 7% of GDP
  
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• Theresa May weighs cabinet reshuffle after UK general election

  08-06-2017 13:02 via ft.com
  Amber Rudd could be chancellor if May rules out keeping Philip Hammond in Treasury
  
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• What time will we know who won? Hour-by-hour election night guide

  08-06-2017 11:48
  
  What to look out for as the night unfolds, including results for key bellwether seats, potential upsets, and how to tell who is doing wellElection results live: all the results, reaction and analysisUK election results 2017 – live trackerThe polls closed with the shock prediction that Theresa May was on course to lose her overall majority in a hung parliament. Continue reading...
  
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• Nicholas Soames saddles up for final dash in UK general election

  08-06-2017 11:38 via ft.com
  Pro-hunting Europhile grasps chance to rein in Tories charging towards hard Brexit
  
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• Brexit: UK general election result may have major impact on talks

  08-06-2017 11:34
  
  With exit talks due to begin on 19 or 20 June, Brussels and other EU27 capitals will await result with more than usual interest General election 2017 – live updates
  Election night: your hour-by-hour guideBrussels and other EU capitals were awaiting the result of the UK general election with more than usual interest: it could have a major impact on potentially fraught talks over Britain’s exit from the bloc, scheduled to begin barely 10 days later.The first formal Brexit negotiating r
  
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• The Waugh Zone: General Election Day Special, June 8, 2017

  08-06-2017 11:31
  
  1. VOTE, VOTE, VOTE
  The polls opened at 7am and the airwaves have been a politics-free zone, in keeping with strict broadcasting rules for election day. But that hasn’t stopped both parties from using the internet to ram home their Get Out The Vote messages.
  On Twitter, Labour has paid for top trend #VoteLabour, but #VoteLabour2017 is trending of its own accord. On Facebook, where the real voters and non-voters tend to live, the Tories have again piled in their wall of cash with ads praisi
  
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• Jon Snow Interviews Theresa May On Channel 4 News, Gives Her A Bit Of A Pasting

  08-06-2017 11:29
  
  Jon Snow spent most of yesterday on a mad dash across the country chasing the leaders of the UK’s main political parties ahead of today’s vote, as he helpfully illustrated with this map.I'm #ChasingTheLeaders the length of the country to try and speak with Mr Corbyn and Mrs May on the last day of the campaign..! pic.twitter.com/YXoJnb0dqb— Jon Snow (@jonsnowC4) June 7, 2017
  The Channel 4 News veteran’s day didn’t seem to be working out as planned as he was snubbed b
  
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• Pound falls after UK exit poll shows hung parliament

  08-06-2017 11:20 via ft.com
  Sterling srops 1.4 per cent to $1.2719 in largest drop since October
  
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• Brexit bots and the UK election

  08-06-2017 11:03 via ft.com
  FT analysis of how the most prolific bots are responding to the UK vote on June 8
  
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• Election night 2017 as-it-happens

  08-06-2017 10:49
  
  Rolling coverage throughout the evening and morning, as the results of general election 2017 come in.
  
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• Glumbuckets, mugwumps and Greg Knight: the best (and worst) moments of the election – video

  08-06-2017 10:32
  
  From Brenda in Bristol to Tim Farron’s spaniel, the UK’s snap general election has been anything but typical. We relive the weird, wonderful and straight out awkward moments of the 2017 general electionElection live: all the news and analysisUK election results 2017 – live trackerContinue reading...
  
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• What time does each constituency declare its results in the 2017 general election?

  08-06-2017 10:00
  
  Find out when your constituency’s results are scheduled to come in according to the Press Association schedule
  General election – live updatesUK election results 2017 – live trackerElection night: your hour-by-hour guide to what happens Continue reading...
  
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