David Cameron’s Conservative party has won a shock victory in the UK, confounding pre-election polls.
With nearly 500 results in on Friday morning (8 May), the Conservatives were forecast to win 325 seats in the 650-member parliament, putting them on the brink of an outright majority. The opposition Labour party were projected to claim 232 seats.
The result is a poke in the eye for opinion pollsters, who had confidently forecast a near dead heat between Labour and the Conservative...
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