No horse-trading, compromise, or coalition will be needed this time. When a bleary-eyed David Cameron gets behind his desk in 10 Downing Street, his Conservatives will begin to govern the UK alone for the first time in nearly 20 years.
The election result which emerged in the early hours of Friday morning (8 May) confounded all forecasts and made fools of the opinion poll industry.
Voters on Thursday saw 11 separate polls all putting the Conservatives and Labour in a dead heat.
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