Theresa May dug her own grave by calling a needless snap election when she already had a majority of 17 in the house. She could have easily continued as Prime Minister till 2020 but she wanted more and took a gamble, which went horrible wrong. She fought the election on a single agenda of Brexit and demonising, vilifying and denigrating Jeremy Corbyn the Labour leader. She made it personal fight instead of a political fight. That strategy back fired badly depriving her the coronation she was expecting.
Jeremy Corbyn kept his cool, he did not retaliate in kind to the three pronged attack he faced from Theresa May and her Tory Party, the hostile media and his own Labour Parliamentary members. He concentrated on policies of the Labour party as shown in the popular manifesto and enthusing young people to register to vote in the interest of their education, jobs and the country. His strategy worked and he gained 26 more seats for Labour contrary to expectations.
With a hung parliament, Theresa May’s days are numbered, she is no longer a stronger and stable leader but a weak and unstable leader. Whether she will be able to govern with the help of DUP of Northern Ireland is to be seen. She has lost credibility both in the eyes of the British people and the European Union. She will have to take a U-turn from hard Brexit to soft and sensible Brexit. It would be in the interest of United Kingdom to take on board leaders of all the political parties on the negotiating team to get an acceptable trade agreement with the European Union. That is the only way to get the British people behind her and to remove divisions in the country.
Baldev Sharma
Rayners Lane, Harrow
