British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative
party looks set to continue in power after it defied
expectations and won the 323 seats needed to
command a parliamentary majority.
The results confirmed a shock exit poll projection
published by British broadcasters late on Thursday
night that put the party way ahead of the opposition
Labour Party with 316 seats. Updated projections put
the Conservatives on 329, an absolute majority.
The poll also predicted Labour winning 239 seats, the
Scottish National Party (SNP) winning 58 and the
Liberal Democrats winning 10. Labour’s tally was
further revised down to 233 as the vote counts came
in.
The party’s leader, Ed Miliband, is expected to resign
his position, sources within the party told Al Jazeera on
condition of anonymity.
Nick Clegg, who was deputy prime minister under the
outgoing coalition government, announced his
resignation as leader of the Liberal Democrats after his
party’s “catastrophic” defeat.
Clegg called the loss of more than 40 of the party’s
seats “the most crushing blow to the Liberal
Democrats” since it was founded.
Speaking after successfully defending his seat in
Witney, Cameron said his Conservative party’s policies
in the last government had been vindicated by the
result.
“This has been a very strong night for the Conservative
Party,” the prime minister said.

source: http://www.punchng.com/news/cameron-wins-british-election-with-slim-majority/

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