Theresa May called snap election and the electorate called her bluff

By holding an early election May made a serious miscalculation, assuming that the popular support she had when she called the election would translate into votes, write Raj Persaud and Adrian Furnham.

THE Conservative Party’s loss of its parliamentary majority, in the United Kingdom’s snap election last week, has proved political pundits, pollsters, and other prognosticators wrong, once again.

And, once again, various explanations are being offered for an outcome that few expected. Many have said that the prime minister, Theresa May, campaigned poorly, and that pollsters’ models underestimated turnout by younger voters. Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, appeared competent and confident. But these explanations may be irrelevant, because they focus strictly on how the campaign was conducted.