The UK is headed for a general election less than 2 weeks before Christmas, the latest attempt to break the country's Brexit deadlock.
Others such as the Liberal Democrats and Scottish Nationalist Party want to cancel Brexit altogether. While the Brexit Party, led by President Donald Trump ally Nigel Farage, is the political newcomer that might seek to flank the Conservatives from the populist right."However, this is also a time of political volatility and uncertainty," said Ben Page, chief executive of the pollster Ipsos Mori.
That's because of the quirks of Britain's winner-takes-all electoral system. Parties usually focus on a small number of battleground areas to add to their traditional heartlands, ignoring the places where they have almost no chance of winning. If either the Conservatives or Labour were to secure a decisive enough victory, this would in theory give them the green light to push ahead with their agenda on Brexit and other issues. However, another possibility is that the election would return a Parliament just as deadlocked as this one.
If no party wins more than 50 percent of seats, it results in what is known as a"hung Parliament." It's what happened in 2017 and 2010 and usually means parties have to form coalitions in order to govern. British elections are usually held every five years and in spring or summer. If approved, this election would be the third inside five years, and the first held in December since 1923.
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