Here's what you need to know about U.K.'s pivotal 'Brexit election'

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The final hours of campaigning have begun ahead of Thursday’s UK election

on his reasons for suspending Parliament — Johnson claimed it was to push through a domestic policy program, but the court said it was an attempt to frustrate democracy and stop lawmakers from scrutinizing his Brexit plans.If recent polls are accurate, the most likely outcome is a Conservative majority.

It’s also possible that if they fall short, the Conservatives could try to form a coalition, as they did with the Liberal Democrats in 2010. A far less likely outcome is a coalition led by Labour, perhaps propped up by the Scottish National Party.Boris Johnson, who went to the elite private school Eton and Oxford University — a well-worn path for the country’s ruling class — came to notoriety as a journalist and an occasional guest on satirical TV quiz shows.

Its leader, Jo Swinson, 39, was the youngest member of Parliament in the House of Commons when first elected in 2005 and served as business minister in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition from 2012 to 2015.The Lib Dems, as they are universally known, managed to persuade several high-profile lawmakers from the Conservatives and Labour to defect and for a time it appeared that the party would win enough seats to play a role in the next government.

 

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It'd sure be nice if the US election cycle were this quick, as opposed to 18mos of talking heads

Hopefully the curse of Trump but after he was seen mocking Donald he might get elected.

Yet another Russian misinformation campaign victory. ForTheMotherland

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