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Article snippet: Britain is headed into a hung Parliament, in which no party has a majority. • Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to call an early election in the hopes of expanding the Conservative Party’s majority in the House of Commons appears to have disastrously backfired. • With votes in nearly all of the 650 House of Commons constituencies counted, the Conservatives were projected to hold 319 seats — short of the 326 needed for a majority. The Labour Party was projected to hold 261 seats, the Scottish National Party 35 seats and the Liberal Democrats 12 seats, with the remainder held by small parties. • There are already calls for Mrs. May, who became prime minister after the “Brexit” referendum on June 23, to resign. No matter what, Britain’s negotiating posture has been severely weakened. • The hard-left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has faced down numerous divisions within his party, was the big winner of the night. The Conservative Party’s stunning setback immediately had prominent political figures wondering about the future of Mrs. May, although the BBC reported on Friday morning that she had no intention of stepping down. (If she did resign, she would be the shortest-serving prime minister since Andrew Bonar Law, who served 209 days between 1922 and 1923.) A former Conservative leader, Iain Duncan Smith, batted away the idea. “I think it would be a grave error to go into the turmoil of a leadership election,” he told the BBC, while acknowledging that Mrs. May... Link to the full article to read more