'Brexit means Brexit' may be off the table but that's no bad thing

AFTER what even members of her own Conservative party described as a shambolic campaign, British Prime Minister Theresa May has emerged badly bruised from the UK's general election last week, which she had called three years before it was due.

Instead of getting the substantially larger parliamentary majority on which she had gambled and which would supposedly give her a stronger mandate to negotiate Britain's exit from the European Union (EU), she has ended up losing her majority altogether and witnessed the unlikely rise of a radical-left-led Labour Party.

To remain in power, she has been forced to seek the support of the ultra-conservative Democratic Unionist party (DUP) of Northern Ireland, which has an agenda that is of questionable compatibility with that of the Conservatives.