On Wednesday April 19, U.K. lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of an early national election – 522 to 13. This gives the Prime Minister the ability to get around provisions laid out in the 2011 Fixed Term Parliament Act. The first exit polls from Thursday’s U.K. general election suggest the ruling Conservative Party may not have won enough seats to earn a majority in the country’s 650 seat parliament.
What does this mean? How does Britain’s electoral system work? Edward Hardy went out on the streets of London to find out.
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