May loses majority: May making a statement regarding the Grenfell Tower fire in the House of Commons in London recently. She lost her majority in Parliament in the June election which was supposed to strengthen her hand in negotiating Brexit with the European Union. – AFP
APRIL is the cruelest month, so said the famous poet TS Eliot. But one wit remarked that June marks the end of May.
Who would have expected that British Prime Minister Theresa May would lose her majority in Parliament in the June election, which was supposed to strengthen her hand in negotiating Brexit with the European Union? This expectation reversal was as big a shock as Brexit or Trumpism. May may have found her Ides of March in June.
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