UK PM's Election Misjudgment: Dismay For May, Who Finds Politics Of Greed Don't Pay

The smart money had increasingly been on a hung parliament in the UK, with the ruling Conservative party punished for several policy slipups, perceived dithering by Prime Minister Theresa May, and her insistence on a clean and "hard" exit from the European Union that would be led by her alone. She did not need to call the June 8 election, and today, May is ruing the fact that she has lost both the party's absolute majority and her mandate to lead a full-force Brexit.