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The U.K.'s 'Hung Parliament' and What it Means for Brexit
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U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said she shed a tear when she found out her government had lost its majority in the June election and that the result came as a complete shock.
“I felt devastated really,” she told BBC Radio 5 Live’s Emma Barnett. “I knew the campaign wasn’t going perfectly but the messages I was getting were that we were going to get a better response than we did.”