While Cameron spent the weekend drawing up his new team of ministers, the Scottish National Party (SNP) was celebrating its seismic gains, insisting it would not be sidelined in the new parliament.
Despite pollsters predicting that Cameron’s Conservatives would lose ground in Thursday’s vote, they won 331 of the 650 seats in parliament, giving the prime minister a second term in office — this time with a majority for his center-right party.
While there were dramatic gains for the Conservatives and the Scottish National Party (SNP), the opposition was left in disarray after the Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders quit over their parties’ drubbings.
The UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader also resigned, after a huge swell in votes for the populist party translated into only one parliamentary seat.
Dozens of anti-austerity protesters unhappy with Cameron’s return to power clashed with police during a protest outside Downing Street on Saturday, leading to two officers being hospitalized and 17 arrests.
Anti-Tory graffiti was also daubed on a war memorial honouring the women of WWII in what the Royal British Legion called a “senseless act”.
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Their success raised questions about another independence referendum,
but Sturgeon on Sunday told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that the issue
was not “on the immediate horizon”, unless Scotland votes to stay in the
EU and English voters elect to leave.
The Labour Party is set for a period of soul-searching as it starts choosing a replacement for Ed Miliband, who stood down as leader.
Former leader Tony Blair on Sunday told the party to ditch its shift to the left, saying that “the route to the summit lies through the centre ground.”
“Hard-working families don’t just want us celebrating their hard work; they want to know that by hard work and effort they can rise up, achieve,” he wrote in the Observer.
“They want to be better off and they need to know we don’t just tolerate that, we support it.”
The Labour Party is set for a period of soul-searching as it starts choosing a replacement for Ed Miliband, who stood down as leader.
Former leader Tony Blair on Sunday told the party to ditch its shift to the left, saying that “the route to the summit lies through the centre ground.”
“Hard-working families don’t just want us celebrating their hard work; they want to know that by hard work and effort they can rise up, achieve,” he wrote in the Observer.
“They want to be better off and they need to know we don’t just tolerate that, we support it.”
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