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mwooldri

(10,827 posts)

8. Depends how close the Cons get.

Reply to Thrill (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 8, 2017, 11:59 PM

Jun 2017

650 seats... but Sinn Fein don't take theirs. They have 7. So effectively need 321 for majority. DUP in Northern Ireland have 10. So 311 Conservatives plus 10 DUP will get a majority in Parliament.

Broadcasters forecast 316 seats for the Conservatives.

So it will be a minority Conservative government, propped up by the DUP.

Unless DUP will support a rainbow coalition (Lab, SNP, LibDem, Plaid Cymru, Green, others)